Red Dots Summer Dress

After my last big project, I was seeking for a nice, quick and easy made project (the bag project wasn't very successful, so I needed another one). And I had this nice fabric in my stash: An off-white cotton with lots of tiny red dots and a three-dimensional self-fabric embellishment at the selvage. The fabric was calling for a full skirted dress!

This is pattern no. 108 from Burda magazine 3/2011, with a "normal" skirt instead of a balloon skirt. It is in fact a fitted bodice with a gathered rectangle as the skirt part.
Since I was very impatient, I did not make a muslin at all, just made the usual alterations directly on the paper pattern just with measuring. So I did not expect it to be perfect, but I am a bit unhappy with the too small armholes. Which I could have noticed when trying on the dress several times during the construction process. Well, I did try it on several times, but for some reason I never noticed the armhole problem until the dress was finished. So I let out the shoulder seams afterwards for as much as possible, but it still feels a bit too tight around the shoulders. The dress is still comfortable enough to wear it, luckily!

Die Armlöcher sind etwas zu klein - selber schuld, ich war ungeduldig und habe auf ein Probeteil verzichtet: ganz schlechte Idee!

So I think it is still a nice dress to wear in summer. I lined only the bodice with a cotton voile fabric, as I don't like the usual synthetic lining fabrics directly on my skin on hot summer days. So the dress feels really light and airy. Conclusion: not perfect, but still wearable (at least I think so), and after all, you can never have too many summer dresses, right?

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