The Assembly Line - Shirt Dress

About the Shirt Dress

Shirt dress features a slight A-line silhouette and is designed to end at mid-calf length. Comes with a regular collar, a front button placket and two different cuff sleeves to choose from, one full length and one that ends at the elbow. Pockets in seam seams.

The Fabrics

For your Shirt Dress, consider light to medium light weight fabrics such as cotton, tencel, silk, lawn, linen, crepe de chine or wool crepe.

Fabric needed for the short sleeve version:

• 110-120 cm fabric width XS 2.8 m / S 2.8 m / M 3.3 m / L 3.7 m / XL 3.7 m / 2XL 3.7 m / 3XL 3.7 m 
• 140-150 cm fabric width XS 2.1 m / S 2.1 m / M 2.2 m / L 2.3 m / XL 2.8 m / 2XL 2.9 m / 3XL 3.0 m 

Fabric needed for the long sleeve version:

• 110-120 cm fabric width XS 3.1 m / S 3.1 m / M 3.5 m / L 4.0 m / XL 4.1 m / 2XL 4.1 m / 3XL 4.1 m 
• 140-150 cm fabric width XS 2.4 m / S 2.4 m / M 2.4 m / L 2.5 m / XL 3.1 m / 2XL 3.2 m / 3XL 3.2 m 

The Notions

• Fusible interfacing
• 12 mm buttons
• Front placket: XS-M 11 pcs, L-3XL 12 pcs.
• Sleeve cuffs: Short sleeve 2 buttons, Long sleeve 4 buttons.

Sizing

The Shirt Dress sewing pattern used to come in two size ranges.  This pattern is XL-3XL

Level of Difficulty

The Assembly Line rates this pattern as ‘Advanced’.