Paneled Dress with Flounce and Yokes
This elegant midi skirt pattern features a form-fitting paneled silhouette, a clean front yoke, and a stunning architectural flounce detail at the back for a sophisticated and modern look.
When To Wear
This skirt is perfect for various occasions, offering both elegance and unique style:
- Professional & Business Chic: Elevate your office attire with a stylish and refined silhouette.
- Formal Daytime Events: Ideal for cocktail parties, luncheons, or upscale gatherings that call for sophisticated dressing.
- Fashion-Forward Styling: a statement piece that can be dressed up or down for distinctive social engagements.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a flattering pencil skirt silhouette, fitted through the hips and tapering gently to a midi length.
Waist: Sits at the natural waist, offering a classic and comfortable fit.
Front: Features a streamlined front panel with a separate front yoke, creating a clean and elegant profile.
Back: Distinguished by an intricate, layered flounce detail at the lower back, artfully shaped according to the design drawing. The upper back includes structured yokes and panels for a tailored finish.
Closure: Discreet invisible zipper closure positioned along the center back seam.
Length: Midi length, falling elegantly below the knee.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires confident sewing skills, including precise panel matching, invisible zipper application, and meticulous construction of the layered flounce and yoke details.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose fabrics that offer both structure and drape to best highlight the design details:
- Thin suiting fabrics made from natural or blended fibers
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 1 invisible zipper
Cutter's Must
If the patterns have a double contour, they include seam allowances. If the contour is single, the patterns do not include seam allowances. Seam allowances: all seams 1 cm. Hem allowance – 3 cm. Attention! First, print out the paper patterns and lay them out on the fabric width (fabric width can be from 90cm to 150cm) to determine how much material you will need. When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match!
- From main fabric:
- Upper back – 2 pieces
- Side – 2 pieces
- Placket – 2 pieces
- Lower back – 2 pieces
- Front – 1 piece
- Back yoke – 4 pieces
- Front yoke – 2 pieces
- Flounce – 4 pieces
- From fusible interfacing:
- Back yoke – 2 pieces
- Front yoke – 1 piece
Sewing Instructions
- Interface the yokes with fusible interfacing.
- Fold flounces in pairs right sides together and stitch the outer edge. Clip allowances. Turn the flounce right side out, straighten, and press. Stitch a topstitch along the edge at 0.1 cm.
- Fold the placket in half lengthwise right sides together and stitch the lower edge. Turn the piece right side out, straighten, and press. Place the flounce on the placket, aligning the raw edges (the finished edge of the flounce is directed towards the fold of the placket), and stitch. Fold the flounce according to the technical drawing and secure it along the upper edge with the placket. Note that the edge of the flounce, folded along the "fold" line, is directed inwards.
- Overlock the center edges of the upper back separately. Stitch the center seam from the zipper mark downwards. Press allowances open.
- Fold and secure the plackets with flounces butt-to-butt. Stitch the upper back to the plackets. Press allowances upwards and overlock.
- Stitch the lower back to the upper and the placket. Note that the lower is 3 cm longer than the placket. Press allowances towards the side and overlock.
- Stitch the side to the back. Press allowances towards the side and overlock.
- Stitch the outer back yokes to the back, press allowances upwards. Insert the zipper. Stitch the front yoke to the front, press allowances upwards.
- Stitch the side seams of the skirt, press allowances towards the back and overlock.
- Stitch the side seams of the inner yokes. Overlock the lower edge. Fold the yoke with the skirt right sides together and stitch the upper edge. Topstitch allowances onto the inner yoke at a distance of 0.2 cm from the stitching seam. Fold facings to the wrong side, press. Fold the center edges of the inner yoke and sew to the zipper tape. Topstitch the inner yoke into the seam of the outer yoke attachment.
- Overlock the lower edge of the skirt, press to the wrong side and hem with blind stitches.
