New Look 6429 - Mock wrap dress

[quartercentury]

Patterns

Pattern Manufacturer

New Look

Pattern Name/Number

6429 - Mock wrap dress

Pattern Description

Mock wrap dress with variations in sleeves, collar, belt, designed for knits

Which view and size did you make?

View B (long sleeve), size 12

Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it?

No

If not, why?

Sleeve length wasn't long enough! My fault for just assuming and not measuring before cutting, but once cut the sleeves were only long enough to make 3/4 sleeves for me.

Were the instructions easy to follow?

Yes

If not, why?

-

What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern?

Having put it together, I do not like 1) the width of the front panels, which puts the mock wrap/gathers right under the (or just my?) breast, rather than to the side, where I think a wrap dress should be gathered, and 2) it has a set-in sleeve! Boo hiss! On the other hand, it fits well - I sewed the size indicated on the envelope by my bust measurement and it fits!

Fabric used

Poly knit - too slippery for my taste/machine/level of experience (this only recognized in retrospect, of course)

Pattern alterations or any design changes you made or would recommend

Setting out, I modified the back of the dress - it is designed so that the center back comes to a point where it meets the skirt panels. I made it a little more rounded as the point seemed too 1980s to me (pattern copyright 2004, just FYI)

Would you sew this pattern again?

No

Would you recommend this pattern to others?

No

Any additional comments

OK, so I might make this again with a less slippery/difficult-to-work-with fabric, but only if I succeeded in modifying the front to be wider and the back to be narrower. And for my time, there must be a better wrap dress pattern out there, right?

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