Classic Collared Blouse
A sophisticated women's blouse pattern designed with a neatly tailored silhouette, featuring a crisp collar on a stand, 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 that closes with a button, ensuring a crisp and structured finish.
Closure: a button-front with separate plackets; five buttons on the right front.
Sleeves: Long, set-in sleeves with pleats at the lower edge, a short opening and cuffs, each fastened with a single button.
Back: a clean back cut in one piece on the fold, without a center seam or yoke, shaped with waist darts.
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 firm blouse-weight fabrics with some body for a crisp finish:
- Cotton shirting
- Poplin
- Broadcloth
- Linen blends
- Twill
- Fine gabardine
Additional Supplies
- Fusible interfacing (for plackets, cuffs, collar & collar stand)
- 8 buttons (5 for the front placket, 1 for the collar stand, 2 for the cuffs)
Cutter's Must
- From main fabric:
- Back – 1 piece (on fold)
- Front – 2 pieces
- Collar – 2 pieces
- Stand Collar – 2 pieces
- Sleeve – 2 pieces
- Cuff – 4 pieces
- Center Front Placket – 2 pieces
- Interfacing: reinforce the Center Front Placket, Cuff, Collar and Stand Collar pieces with fusible interfacing.
Sewing Instructions
- Reinforce the Center Front Placket, Cuff, Collar and Stand Collar pieces with fusible interfacing (fusible interfacing is pressed onto the wrong side of the piece with a hot iron).
- Stitch the darts.
- Stitch the side and shoulder seams.
- Press the seam allowance along one long edge of the Center Front Placket to the wrong side.
- Place the Center Front Placket on the Front right sides together and stitch; press the seam allowances towards the placket.
- Stitch across the lower end of the placket right sides together and turn it right side out.
- Topstitch the placket along the attachment seam to the Front, catching the inner (folded) side of the placket.
- Turn up the hem allowance of the blouse and topstitch.
- Stitch the Collar pieces right sides together along the outer edge, turn right side out and press.
- Place the Stand Collar pieces right sides together, sandwiching the Collar between their upper edges.
- Stitch the Stand Collar along the front and upper edges, turn right side out and press.
- Stitch the outer Stand Collar piece to the neckline, turn under the inner Stand Collar piece and stitch it over the attachment seam.
- Make a buttonhole on the right end of the Stand Collar.
- Stitch the Sleeve seam up to the opening notch and press the seam allowances open.
- Lay and baste the pleats at the lower edge of the Sleeve.
- Place the Cuff pieces right sides together, stitch around the edges and turn right side out.
- Stitch the outer Cuff to the lower edge of the Sleeve, turn under the inner Cuff and stitch it over the attachment seam.
- Set in the Sleeves, easing them at the sleeve caps.
- Press the sleeve seam allowances at the sleeve cap area towards the Sleeve.
- Make 5 buttonholes along the placket of the right Front and 1 buttonhole on each Cuff. Sew on the buttons.
