Made-to-measure dress pattern

On a dress, the difference between bust, waist and hip shows straight away: that's where made to measure is most noticeable. It has to sit right on the bust, define the waist in the right place and keep the right length. Rather than starting from an average block, we build the pattern on your own numbers — bust, back length, waist and hip — for a dress built on your body rather than on an average.

The studio covers a wide range of dresses: flared with a defined waist, straight or close-fitting sheath, flowing A-line, floor-length maxi, or button-through shirt dress. Long-sleeved, short-sleeved or sleeveless, the armhole and shoulder line are matched to your body shape.

The fastening follows the design drafted: the sheath dress closes with a zip, the flared dress with a defined waist with a zip or with buttons all the way down, the shirt dress with its button placket at the front. Your instructions say, for your design, what is reproduced from the photo and what isn't.

One family is still missing, and we'd rather say so: the wrap dress, whose two wrap panels cross over at the front. Its overlap isn't a detail you add to a closed dress, it's the whole construction of the front, and we don't yet have a base that can handle it. If that's the one that inspires you, it's better to wait until it joins the catalogue.

Depending on the design drafted, the studio offers free adjustments, or none: your project page will tell you. You leave with a pattern to print at home, seam allowances included and grainline marked, and its step-by-step sewing instructions — from the first dart to the last hem.