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Before I wrap up my little series about the 1920's 1 hour dress later this week, I thought today I would spotlight a couple examples of the style from real 1920's prints and extant dresses! I scoured Pinterest for surviving examples of the simple "1 hour" style that can be created with the super straightforward pattern. I did find several more examples of what I would call a modified 1 hour, where the skirt was shaped differently or just separated from the bodice at the drop waist and gathered or pleated instead of cut in one piece, but I didn't include those here as I wanted to keep this post about dresses you could make directly with the basic 1 hour pattern. Lets take a look! This floral dress highlights the lovely textiles of the Oriental Silk Printing Company well with its ultra simple lines. It's also a 1 hour dress with an elegant boatneck and a ribbon rose corsage pinned at the hip! These stylish ladies have the cutest box purses and white dresses! Both dresses could be made with the 1 hour pattern, especially the dress on the right which looks like it may perhaps just have matching bias binding around the sleeve and neckline edges? Make a thin belt from the same bias strip and presto! Easy and super chic! It's hard to see exactly what is going on with the skirt of this dress but the general silhouette is definitely 1 hour dress material! Glamorous in black silk with what looks to be a matching belt/sash around the drop-waist and a two-layer skirt. An easy way to achieve this skirt effect is to create a slip (or even just a skirt slip) that is longer than your dress to wear underneath. The 1 hour dress pattern strikes again! This time cut in one single piece! Here we see what the dress looks like if instead of gathering/pleating the side skirt fullness, you simply let it hang freely down the sides. Robe Simplette indeed! Here the sides hang free again and a belt controls the fullness at the waist. Also, embroidered stars? Here some serious embroidery makes the dress look more complex than it really is. Looks like they pleated the waist extension to the back which is something on do for most of my 1 hour dresses too and it keeps the sides looking nice and smooth. I will have to make an embroidered 1 our soon in breezy cotton for summer! I know what you are thinking, the skirt looks different here, but I think the only change is widening the skirt for more fullness, For a more robe de style look consider a custom petticoat with tulle along the sides to hold out the skirt just so. Also fun vandyke trimmings and ultra Vogue style cred. And for evening why not add (faux) fur trim along the hem for some ultra luxurious glamour. This is another super chic simple example where the pattern is identical to the 1 hour but the dress looks extra amazing because the textile is so pretty! Last of today's examples this beautiful beaded velvet dress! That's one fancy 1 hour dress, but totally achievable if you found a wondrous fabric or have beading skills and a ton of time! I think in the future I will be expanding from my comfort zone of the 1 hour dress pattern (I have 6 of them now? or more ish?) but I will definitely be using the pattern as a jumping off point as I try to draft other 20's styles! I hope this post gave some of you ideas on what kind of looks the 1 hour pattern can achieve :)
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Once I knew what the One Hour Dress was, I saw them everywhere. http://theclosethistorian.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-one-hour-1920s-dress.html Go search on 'one hour dress 1920s'. Go ahead, I'm here all week. https://youtu.be/VImcfqrqWKQ is the You Tube ad for the book (original link is dead) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/163561029X/ but here it is on Amazon. There are a million variations on the One Hour Dress. I based my pattern on this image I found online, which turns out to be from a pretty nifty pattern on Etsy. https://www.etsy.com/listing/154191896/1920s-one-hour-frock-pattern-updated Give her your $3, you won't be sorry. the alder shirtdress does it too It's a pullover design of the early 20s, a tube with a horizontal slash at the hip that gathers the side fabric extension into the main body as a skirt. A one piece pattern that is easy to draft, uses fabric very efficiently. Probably easy to make from flour sacks. The versions out there are generally pretty dumpy, but if you look at the illustrations using this style, there's a lot of sweet details. The slash goes from side to side, and is wrapped with the same white cotton on the vertical appliques Another slash across the center front, with the red bias finish making either belt loops or something to pull your dishtowel through (seen it both ways). In both of these examples, the seam is on the 'right side' and is covered with a different fabric trim. The One Hour dress is on the upper left with the boatneck and the flowers You're just laying the pattern over prepleated/tucked fabric here Dear reader, of course I made one... Yes, you are drafting your own pattern from a formula and measurements. I should mention that the Superboard isn't the most accurate for cutting precise measurements; the grid gets shortened lengthwise with the folds in the board. But it gets the job done drew a neck hole based on my head shoulder seam line started drafting from the neckhole out. A plastic sword makes a good paper weight/spreading device ripped to grain up the fabric, folded it crossgrain and doubled The one pattern piece laid out Marked a front and a back neckline; will cut both for the back and then one for the lowered front I could have used the minimal scrap for a facing for the neck line, or pockets I haven't added pockets. Yet. thread gathered the skirt extention to tack it to the bodice (seam G for those of you playing along at home) I put black bias tape over the gathered seam G (sewed that with the seam allowance to the right side). Also finished the neckline with the stuff. All the bits for this came from the stash, for once. All the interior finishing was zig zag stitch over the seam allowance. Period would have been pinked, but rayon can be ....capricious. It is waaaaay too wide (the bodice should be your chest measurement plus 2", NOT plus 8". I also need to find a better place to take photos and find another face to make in those photos. On the other hand, it's rayon so it's drapey and the finished object isn't out of scale for the period. Kinda a William Morris rose. It's a sack dress, without darts or extra cuts. It's kinda sweet, kinda frumpy, and I plan on wearing it tomorrow night to the theater. Not the theatre.
