I purchased the pattern, fabric and buttons for the Merchant and Mills Florence dress from a shop at Sunny Bank Mills where the Great British Sewing Bee is filmed. The dress is voluminous and I measured as a 16. I had initially decided to go for the size 12 but chickened out when getting ready to cut out the dress and traced size 14 instead.
I think this is a perfect summer dress and should be cool as temperatures start to rise. I had finished everything except the buttons before I tried on the dress and realised that the buttons went at the back as the back hem was 12" lower than the front hem. I spent about 45 minutes unpicking the seam, overlocking and gathers. Annoying but it had to be done.
I love the vintage buttons and only one needs to be undone to get the dress on. I think I'll be wearing this a lot this summer.
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