Irish Overdress Pattern

[Lady Ellie]

Does anyone know of a good pattern. I want a overdress in a certain colors so I've decided to try and make one eventually. Any help would be great.

Lady Ellie

[LadyShadow]

I think both Simplicity and McCalls have one, if you want to go that route.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

I use a simple Bodice pattern from Alter Years for the Bodice part. The skirt is gathered  3 panels of 45" wide fabric with the measurement from waist to floor, plus 2 5/8".\ for the hem and seam.

[Hoowil]

From personal experience, make sure that its 45" fabric. I tried doing that, and was in a little bit of a hurry, and ended up using 3 60" panels. It worked out in the end, but was a whole lot of fabric and looks bulky.

[sealion]

From personal experience, make sure that its 45" fabric. I tried doing that, and was in a little bit of a hurry, and ended up using 3 60" panels. It worked out in the end, but was a whole lot of fabric and looks bulky.

Really? I guess it depends on the weight of the fabric. :shrug: I just used three 60" (50-something after prewashing) panels and I like how it looks. I think two panels would have looked skimpy.

[gem]

My avatar gown has two panels of 60" (shrunk to 50-whatever) wide linen, box pleated to my waist measurement.  It has only modest fullness:



It isn't skimpy so much as not bulky/overly full, and b/c of the pleats there's plenty of swish to the skirts when I walk.

When I made this dress, I had recently lost almost 50 lbs and several inches off my waist.  The Irish gown I wore when I was heavier had three panels of skirt, gathered to the waist.  So I would take your size into account when deciding how much width you need to go around.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Ecxellent job, Gem!!!

Some  calculate the waist measurement times 3 for the fullness needed for a skirt. If one is planning to wear a farthingale underneath with an Underskirt, fullness then comes into question.

[DonaCatalina]

Shinrone Gown Irish dress pattern
http://www.bigdaddygypsy.com/patterns/shinrone-gown-pattern.html

[Cilean]

Alteryears has the best "Irish Kirtle Pattern"
http://alteryears.com/index.html?192.html&1

You can also get a liene shirt patern as well.

So I can vouch this is an easy pattern and looks better than the Big 3!

Cilean