I have finally managed to make something from the 1956 Burda magazine. It is a very simple "sommerbluse"... summer blouse/short sleeved shirt. Four piece pattern with a rounded collar and 4 buttons. I used an offcut that I bought for $2 at the local material shop because I wasn't sure if the pattern would work to my satisfaction. As it turns out, it does and I wish I had used nicer material.
Essentially this is an easy shirt to make. There are no sleeves to attach, which always makes me breath a great sigh of relief. There is some shirring or gathering at the shoulders, but in the end (with the help of a huge number of pins) this wasn't really an issue either. I did a dumb girls collar, in that I just found a way for it to fit regardless of the intent of design and sewed it over rather than doing anything by hand. Here is the youtube tutorial I watched (without sound because it is awful) and the very detailed instructions from the same in html format (that I only followed in part), so I know how to do it right but it's so nice knowing that I know, whilst not doing it "correctly".
I'm (177cm tall, 81kg... yes yes yes I am coming down from a 30kg baby gain) probably somewhere between a 12 and 14 AUS on top from the shops, and the 44 fits comfortably. From now on I'll go to the size 42 or cut the 44 with a small seam allowance (I went for 10 to 15mm). I have an image of the magazine shirt, however something went wrong with the PDF save originally so I'll have to upload it later, but the shirt I made is photographed above and here alongside the as yet unmade other items from the 1956 April Burdamodern magazine.
More to follow soon I hope. This was a fun exercise, lets hope the rest follow suit.
softly slowly.
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