Classic Collared Blouse
A sophisticated women's blouse pattern designed with a neatly tailored silhouette, featuring a crisp collar, full-length sleeves with cuffs, and a classic button-front placket.
When To Wear
This versatile blouse is perfect for a variety of settings, making it an excellent choice for:
- Business & Professional Settings: Provides a polished and authoritative look for the office or formal meetings.
- Smart Casual Gatherings: Easily dressed up or down, perfect for brunches, dinner dates, or everyday elegance.
- Layering Essentials: An ideal base layer under blazers, cardigans, or pullovers for versatile styling.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a fitted silhouette shaped with bust and waist darts for a flattering, tailored look.
Neckline / Collar: Features a classic pointed collar with a separate collar stand, ensuring a crisp and structured finish.
Closure: a clean button-front placket on the right front, secured with five buttons.
Sleeves: Long, set-in sleeves finished with tailored cuffs, each featuring a single button closure and subtle pleats for ease.
Back: a smooth, clean back without a center seam or yoke, enhancing its streamlined appearance.
Hem: a straight hemline for a versatile tuck-in or wear-out style.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Requires skills in dart construction, setting in sleeves with ease, clean collar and placket assembly, and buttonhole creation.
Fabric Recommendations
Choose stable blouse-weight fabrics with some body for a crisp finish:
- Cotton shirting
- Poplin
- Broadcloth
- Linen blends
- Twill
- Fine gabardine
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing (for placket, cuffs, collar & collar stand)
- 7 buttons (5 for front placket, 2 for cuffs)
Cutter's Must
- From main fabric:
- Back - 1 qty on fold
- Front - 2 qty
- Collar - 2 qty
- Collar stand - 2 qty
- Sleeve - 2 qty
- Cuff - 4 qty
- Placket - 2 qty
- Interfacing: reinforce placket, CUFFs, COLLARs and stands with fusible interfacing.
Sewing Instructions
- Reinforce the placket, CUFFs, COLLARs, and stands with fusible interfacing (Heat-activated interfacings are ironed onto the wrong side of the fabric piece with a hot iron).
- Stitch the darts.
- Complete the side and shoulder SEAMs.
- Press the seam allowance along one of the long sides of the placket to the wrong side.
- Place the placket right sides together with the front and stitch, press the seam allowances towards the placket.
- Cleanly understitch the bottom edge of the placket.
- Topstitch the placket along the attachment seam to the front, catching the lower of the placket.
- Turn up and topstitch the hem allowance of the blouse.
- Cleanly understitch the collar along the outer contour.
- Fold the collar stand pieces right sides together, placing the collar between the upper edges.
- Cleanly understitch the stand along the front and upper edges.
- Attach the outer stand piece to the neckline, turn under the inner stand piece and sew it over the attachment seam.
- On the right end of the stand, make a buttonhole.
- Complete the sleeve seam up to the slit notch, press the seam allowances open.
- At the bottom edge of the sleeve, create and baste the pleats.
- Fold the cuff pieces right sides together and cleanly understitch along the contour.
- Attach the outer half of the cuff to the bottom edge of the sleeve, turn under the inner half and sew it over the attachment seam.
- Set in the SLEEVEs, easing them at the sleeve caps.
- Press the seam allowances of the sleeve attachment seam at the sleeve cap area towards the sleeve.
- Along the placket of the right front, make 5 buttonholes; on the CUFFs, make 1 buttonhole each.
