Short Frilled Dress

Short Frilled Dress

A sleeveless women's wrap dress without a waist seam, shaped by bust and waist darts. A flounce runs along the V-neckline and the wrap edge and stands over the shoulders; diagonal flounces at the lower edge form an asymmetric, pointed hem, and the dress fastens with narrow ties.

When To Wear

• Summer days and holidays, with sandals or flat shoes.
• Garden parties and summer evening events.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted through the bodice, without a waist seam; bust darts pressed downwards and waist darts pressed towards the centre front.

Length: Short at the sides, dropping to long points at the front and back through the lower flounces.

Neckline: Deep wrap V-neckline. The front flounce is stitched to the front neckline edge wrong sides together, the seam overlocked and topstitched onto the front 0.4 cm from the seam; its outer edge is finished with a rolled hem. The back neckline is bound with bias binding.

Sleeves: Sleeveless, with bias-bound armholes; the neckline flounce stands over the shoulders.

Closure: Wrap front, cut as right and left fronts with different lower flounces. Narrow ties are stitched to both fronts; one passes through an opening left in the right side seam and the ties are knotted at the waist.

Back: Centre back seam; the lower back flounce is stitched to a V-shaped seam at the back.

Skirt: Diagonal flounces on the fronts and back, seams overlocked and pressed towards the flounces.

Finishing: Flounce hems and tie edges finished with a narrow rolled overlock hem.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Joining flounces to curved and diagonal seams without stretching them, rolled-hem finishing, bias binding on curved edges and a wrap front with ties through the side seam.

Fabric Recommendations

Fabrics of natural or blended fibres.

Additional Supplies

• Bias binding (armholes, neckline)