Historic Transport Day Outfit 2019

I wanted a new outfit for transport day this year. I was thinking something that I could wear normally as well if I wanted. I had found a really soft denim type fabric with a daisy pattern on it (the family have always liked daisies since my sister called her daughter Daisy 🙂 ), which I thought would make a nice full skirt, which would go with a tie front blouse. I was thinking maybe Sandy from Grease, at the start of the film!!

I had had a bit of a ‘fabric day’ in May and went round all of my favourite fabric shops:

Nortex Mill in Bolton, Leons in Chorlton, then Fent in Macclesfield followed by Shufflebotham’s. I was after fabric for something for transport day, and also some silk for an evening gown – more on that in a later blog.

This was my fabric for this project:

I used the skirt part of the pattern for the 1950 vintage dress, and made it longer at the back, shorter at the front (just to be different). Lined it and put a waistband on. I also put pockets in it!!! I need to move the hook on this to tighten it up a bit more…. 🙁

I didn’t have a pattern for a tie front blouse, so did some searching on the internet and found this really useful blog:
https://sewoverit.co.uk/sew-tie-front-shirt-penny-dress-pattern/

I don’t have the Penny Dress pattern, but the theory should apply to any shirt pattern, right?

I used my Burda 6849 shirt pattern and applied a similar logic and it seemed to work out okay. I had some blips… The blog had suggested a facing down the front edges, and not a button band. This conflicted with the yoke lining, so I have ended up with a lovely shirt yoke, messed up with a facing as well. But nobody else knows this when I wear it!! Don’t tell anyone!!

Now the big question when I do a blog – did anyone take a good picture of me wearing it? I will go check!! I wore it for the day, watched the car parade through the village, and then sat on the field with my husband’s tractor and a picnic.