V-Neck Wrap Maxi Tiered Flounce Dress
Introducing an elegant women's maxi dress pattern featuring a sophisticated V-neck wrap bodice and a gracefully flowing skirt of five tiered flounces.
When To Wear
This dress exudes refined elegance, making it perfect for:
- Formal Evenings: Its flowing silhouette and tiered skirt are ideal for galas and sophisticated dinners.
- Weddings & Celebrations: a stylish choice for guests attending special ceremonies and receptions.
- Cocktail Parties: Offers a comfortable yet glamorous option for social gatherings.
Key Design Features
Silhouette: a flattering maxi-length silhouette with a long fitted bodice flowing into a tiered flounce skirt.
Neckline: a chic deep V-neckline created by the wrap-style front, finished with bias binding.
Bodice: a fitted wrap bodice shaped with waist darts and a bust dart laid as a soft pleat at the wrap edge.
Sleeves: Sleeveless design with bias-bound armholes for a polished look.
Waist: a dropped waist seam at hip level where the long bodice joins the tiered skirt, creating an elongated silhouette.
Skirt: a full-length skirt of five gathered, overlapping flounces mounted on a skirt lining, providing beautiful movement and volume.
Back: Features a center back seam with an invisible zipper and waist darts.
Closure: An invisible zipper neatly placed in the center back seam ensures a smooth finish.
Level Of Difficulty
Intermediate. Involves techniques such as darts, invisible zipper insertion, finishing edges with bias binding, and assembling multiple gathered skirt tiers.
Fabric Recommendations
Select lightweight, drapey fabrics to achieve the desired flow and movement:
- Fabrics made from natural or blended fibers
Additional Supplies
- Invisible zipper for the center back seam
- Bias binding
- Lining fabric
Cutter's Must
- From main fabric:
- Back – 2 pieces
- Front – 2 pieces
- First Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
- Second Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
- Third Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
- Fourth Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
- Fifth Skirt Flounce – 1 piece
- From lining fabric:
- Skirt Lining – 1 piece
Tip: The bodice of the dress can be finished with lining.
Sewing Instructions
- Mark and stitch the waist darts on the Front and Back. Press the darts on the Front towards the center front, and on the Back towards the center back.
- Mark and stitch the bust dart on the Front. Cut it open to its depth and overlock. At the wrap edge of the Front, lay the bust dart as a soft pleat. The dart ends can be secured with a line of stitching 0.5 cm from the side edge.
- Overlock the center back edges. Stitch the center back seam up to the zipper notch. Press the center back seam open, pressing back the zipper opening allowances, and insert the zipper.
- Stitch the shoulder seams of the dress, overlock, and press towards the back.
- Press the bias binding in half lengthwise and bind the neckline and armholes. Fold under the ends of the binding at the back and secure by hand.
- Stitch the side seams of the dress, matching the notches and forming the wrap. Overlock the side seams and press them towards the back.
- Stitch each flounce and the Skirt Lining into a ring. Overlock the seams and press.
- Baste the Third, Fourth and Fifth Skirt Flounces together along their upper edges. Sew a line of loose gathering stitches and gather.
- Stitch the Third, Fourth and Fifth Skirt Flounces to the Skirt Lining. Overlock the seam and press upwards.
- Baste the First and Second Skirt Flounces and the Skirt Lining together along the upper edge.
- Stitch the bodice to the skirt. Overlock the seam and press upwards.
- Overlock the lower edge of each flounce, fold it to the wrong side, press and topstitch.
