Collared Blouse with Concealed Closure
Discover a women's blouse pattern featuring a unique gathered front yoke, a sophisticated collared button-front, and elegant cuffed long sleeves.
When To Wear
This versatile blouse is perfect for a range of occasions, offering both comfort and polished style, making it an excellent choice for:
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Business Casual: Pairs beautifully with tailored trousers or skirts for a professional office look.
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Smart Everyday Wear: Elevates jeans or casual pants for a chic, put-together daytime outfit.
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Layering & Transition: Ideal for layering under blazers or cardigans, suitable for changing seasons.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: Shaped and fitted through the torso, offering a flattering and comfortable fit.
Neckline & Collar: Features a classic pointed collar attached to a stand, creating a neat and traditional neckline.
Front Detail: Soft gathers at the front neckline/yoke area provide subtle fullness and drape, transitioning into contouring seams for a tailored fit.
Closure: a sophisticated button-front closure with a concealed placket on the right front for buttonholes and a standard placket on the left front for buttons.
Sleeves: Long sleeves finished with neat buttoned cuffs.
Back Detail: The back features shaping darts and princess seams for a tailored and flattering silhouette.
Hem: a straight hemline designed to be tucked in or worn out.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. This pattern involves skills such as collar and stand assembly, button placket construction (including a concealed placket), cuff attachment, and precise shaping seams.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose lightweight to medium-weight woven fabrics with a good drape for blouses, from natural or blended fibers:
- Blouse fabrics made from natural or blended fibers
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing
- 9 buttons
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 for the bottom of the blouse – 1.5 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 (do not forget to account for paired and symmetrical pieces). When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match!
- From main fabric:
- Center back piece — 2 pieces
- Side back piece — 2 pieces
- Side front piece - 2 pieces
- Left front piece - 1 piece
- Right front piece - 1 piece
- Collar — 2 pieces
- Collar stand — 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Cuff — 2 pieces
- From fusible interfacing:
- Collar — 1 piece
- Collar stand - 1 piece
- Cuff — 2 pieces
Sewing Instructions
- Fuse interfacing to the integrated plackets, upper collar, inner collar stand, and cuffs.
- Place the upper collar on the lower collar, right sides together. Stitch the ends and the outer edge of the collar. Trim the seams. Turn the collar right side out, shape, and press. Place the collar stand pieces right sides together, insert the finished collar between them, align the notches, and stitch, simultaneously stitching the ends of the collar stand. Start and end the stitching strictly at the marked line of the collar stand attachment seam. Turn the finished collar stand right side out and press.
- Stitch the darts on the back, press the fullness towards the center. Stitch the princess seams of the back, press the allowances towards the center and overlock. Stitch the center back seam, press the allowance to the left side and overlock.
- Form pleats on the neckline of the front and stitch from the upper edge to the end of the marking, press the fullness away from the center. Stitch the princess seams of the front, press the allowances towards the center and overlock.
- Right front: Press the front inward to the wrong side along the "front edge" and "hidden placket edge" lines. Stitch a topstitch along the inner edge of the placket at a distance of 3 cm from the front edge. Fold the inner of the placket towards the front edge. Press, overlock buttonholes. Left front: Fold the button placket inward first by 1 cm, then by another 3 cm, and stitch a topstitch along the inner edge of the placket.
- Stitch the shoulder and side seams, press the allowances towards the back and overlock.
- Stitch the upper collar stand with the collar into the neckline, fold under the open edge of the lower collar stand, and topstitch into the seam of the upper collar stand attachment.
- Make a slit on the sleeve along the marked line. Cut a bias strip from the main fabric 4 cm wide and a length equal to twice the slit length + 4 cm. Fold the bias strip in half lengthwise and press. Press the outer allowances towards the center. Finish the sleeve slit with the bias strip.
- Stitch the sleeve seam, press the allowance towards the back and overlock. Form a box pleat at the sleeve cap and two arbitrary pleats on the front and back parts of the sleeve cap.
- Set the sleeves into the armholes, press the allowances and overlock.
- Fold the cuff in half lengthwise, right sides together, and stitch the short sides and the step. Start the stitching strictly at the marked line of the cuff attachment to the sleeve. At the mark, clip the allowances, turn the cuff right side out, and press. Attach the outer side of the cuff to the bottom of the sleeve. Fold under the inner side of the cuff and topstitch into the attachment seam.
- Overlock the hem allowance of the blouse, press to the wrong side, and topstitch.
- Overlock the buttonhole on the collar stand. Overlock the buttonholes on the cuffs. Sew buttons onto the left front corresponding to the buttonholes. Sew buttons onto the cuffs.
