Do you know what’s beautiful?
Words!
Yes!
Words are the most beautiful elements when they can carry emotion.
But choosing that right word, actually matters.
Like the word ‘beautiful’, just said that the words are beautiful!
-Harshitha
Women Shirt dress (Bell Sleeves-Buttoned Shirt)
Maxi Shirt Dress:
Women shirt dress looks like an improvised version of a men’s shirt. This was the first idea I had, looking at this Nellore silk material with swans printed all over.
Women Shirt Dress:
There are various styles when it came into women’s fashion like a collar, a button front, waist belt, or cuffed sleeves. Usually, the shirt dresses are made up in fabrics including cotton or silk, much like a men’s dress shirt would be.
I’ve made the shirt dress with a pink Georgette cloth. These shirt dresses often have a looser fit, usually using a belt to get that perfect look of the body. And the immediate sketch was this, with bell sleeves…
This was one of the coolest materials I had, with a breezy look.
Making this dress to a women shirt dress model had the advantage of wearing it in different styles, which you can see in the pics coming up in this post.
The bell sleeve pattern take a little more cloth than ruffled addition like you can see in my previous post for the hands I’ve used. The bell sleeve pattern is cut in the way that it has more length on the outside than the inseam length. The inner hemisphere shown in the image below is supposed to be attached to the hand at the elbow level. So the circumference is taken according to the circumference of the hand just above the elbow.
After cutting the bell sleeve pattern as shown in the image, the in-seam mentions are stitched together to get a look like this flared sleeve pattern look…
Coming to buttoning up, it is something I’ve done for the first time. It was exciting to check for references to match the buttonhole to the buttons distancing, which is the key point. It took a little math obviously.
The collar, collars are actually of different types! which I discovered after a long research on how to make it perfect. One of the YouTube videos helped. Although the video is about sketches, it definitely gave me an idea of a perfect collar.
And the waist frills are kept as much less as possible. It was only 1:1.5 cloth measurement taken to make frills unlike 1:2 taken for my kalamkari Kurta design dress.
Women Shirt Dress Design:
Finally, TADA! The outfit is complimented with chunky heels from Ajio.
This was an interesting pic, just wanted to share!
Unbuttoned look 
And added a waist belt
Lehenga Choli Design (Saree Turned Lehanga Choli)
Here’s an admiral blue pattu saree with gold colour peacock pattern zari turning into a lehenga choli design.
Lehenga choli design, the traditional Indian 2 piece attire comprising of a top bodice and a bottom lehenga. The lehenga being a long skirt pleated or gathered and choli is a cropped top wear. As this design is without a dupatta, I’ve made the choli to boxy styled and not so cropped. The sketch looked like this.
I’ve modernized the choli a little making it a boxy styled top, maintaining the old styling of elbow length sleeves and a simple hook at the back.
I’ve used the grand pallu for the choli. The double border is used to add grandeur to lehenga. This time the ruffles are used to enhance the lehenga border.
Finally, the sketch turned out into a beautiful lehenga choli.
Wrap dress
Worried about how to tie a wrap dress? That can be done, but have you ever thought of a wrap dress look without actually turning and twisting your body about ‘how to tie a wrap dress’
Here’s how I made a wrap dress imitation Aline kurta. This kurta, just gives you that perfect look of a wrap dress, but at the expense of just wearing it on like your normal dress
Aline kurtas are simple and beautiful for any occasion. The side slit I’ve improvised, adds waviness to the kurta giving it a flare of fullness.
Wrap style dresses are good looking in the way it is wrapped around. They are easily adjustable to different kinds of body types and be comfortable. I’ve made little changes retaining the comfort. The change is that its not adjustable, but gives the wrap dress image by freely falling over the body.
A bagru print cobalt blue colored symetrical pattern printed material must be apt for the design from Ajio.
There are no knots or tie ups, it is an imitation of the wrap style. The sketches looked like this.
An overlap of the two pieces below form the front pattern. And the back pattern is as normal as for any other aline kurta. Usually the inner pointed edges which are present at the waist level in the image below are facilitated with ties for a wrap dress. And one of the ties is fed through the eye-hole on the opposite side of the bodice. Bringing the ties behind your back pulling them around the sides and tying in a bow makes a wrap dress, which gets us to how to tie a wrap dress.
I understand, it is a bit overwhelming thinking of the pattern measurements to match the image. I felt it too. As I was mentioning in my previous post , the three pieces for that pattern were cut matching the pattern cutting image below. The pattern cuttings are the tools for us to make our work easy. The pattern cutting method, i’ve learnt from was described in my first post.
The left part in the above image is the front pattern. This forms a V-shaped neckline. Usually the front and back patterns are cut separately, folding the material to half of the whatever widest measurement we want, so that we get symmetrical shape on the left and right. The left part is used accordingly in cutting the two pieces to form the front pattern.
The sleeves are made elbow length with 2 inch wide ruffles in the end giving it a chicky look. The sleeve patterns is
Coming to making ruffles for the sleeve pattern, i’ve suggested a video while making a gathering for the lower part of the dress in my previous post while making a center-slit long kurta , the same technique can be used here also for this sleeve pattern, but on a 3 inch wide band of cloth that is enough for the sleeves.
The overlap finally looked like this continuing the side slit from the end of overlap and the sleeve pattern. You can also get from these online stores out there for different patterns of wrap dresses.
The wrap dress is overlapped all over, so the slit doesn’t happen to appear, but here only a part from the waist is taken over to the other side for the wrap dress look. So, with the visible side slit I’ve complimented the kurta with an off white palazzo and it looked like this..
Kalamkari Tops For Skirts (60s look top-blue silk skirt)
Kalamkari Top For Skirt
My 60s look short kalamkari kurti embraced and made its place in the list of favorites for many, in spite of being simple. Here’s this kalamkari tops for skirts look when complimented with a straight skirt, by straight I mean with little gathering making it fall straight from waist. I thought blue could be the best combination as it contrasts the kurti and highlights it in-turn.
