I always buy Burda Easy Fashion issues, although the patterns seem to get more and more basic over time. In the last, spring/summer 2012 issue, the 60´s inspired line drew my attention, since I have been wanting to make a simple dress in that style. At the same time I was looking for a tangerine shade fabric to make something, in my case, probably another dress. A good opportunity arose when:
1) I saw this dress in Burda Easy Fashion:
2) found this fabric at a newly opened fabric store in Tartu, giving a generous 40% off on everything:
It is 100% polyester and unfortunately so was the only matching shade of lining I was able to find. But thankfully in the end it feels ok on the skin.
The pattern was simple, but I made things a little more complicated for myself by adding a full lining, the sleeves being an exception. I also omitted the horizontal pleats, since my fabric wasn´t suitable for this. The dress is a tad tight around the chest, which in my case is something really rare. But generally I am happy with the result (not so much with the quality of this photo):
I cut my usual Burda size 38 and sewing this dress was pretty simple and straightforward. The pattern requires a slit and button closing on the back, but I used an invisible zipper, because the former seemed slightly childish and also because I had used the slit and button on the previous dress I made (I will make a post of this at some point). For the hem and sleeves I used a double needle to give a nice finish and a little bit of detail to the otherwise plain dress.
As I was putting the dress on in order to mark the hem, I just slipped into a random pair of shoes, which happened to be my greyish snake print peep toe Nine West Getwitit wedges and they unexpectedly match the dress very nicely.
Love the dress! The colour and cut are beautiful 🙂
Thank you!
Thank you! I think it will look even better on tanned skin!
Very pretty. I came across your site after a Google search looking to buy the Burda Easy Spring Summer 2012 XD
Thank you very much!
Lovely dress, well done! 🙂 I’m actually trying to find where I can buy easy fashion magazines and it’s impossible to find 😦 any tips where you get it from? I would hugely appreciate it!
Thanks,
Dasha
hmm, I don´t know where you live so it is difficult to answer, I am not ordering them online. Since I live in Greece most of the time, I used to get them from kiosks, but it seems they have stopped the Greek version, because I haven´t been able to find them anymore. This issue here is from Estonia, it is in German and I got it from a local fabric store.
I am not sure if it helps, but you could try to find a contact on burdastyle.de website (it is in German) and make an inquiry.
Thank you for your comment!