frualeydis | Challenge #2: Innovation (Reply)

I have decided that for this challenge I am going to make a late '20s-early '30s wrap over house dress. While there was propaganda for this dress type already during WWI in the US, they didn't have their breakthrough until the '20s and really didn't reach Europe until ca 1930, so I feel justified in calling it an innovation. Because it really is, it was designed for a whole new type of middle class housewife: someone who actually did her house work herself, with none or just a smaller part of it done by servants.

Usually I make my housedresses in a way that accentuates the waist, but with the wound not yet healed and my abdomen still swollen after the surgery I think this earlier typ will be better. The fabric, which I got from Stoff&Stil a couple of months ago also has a very '30s look and colour. It wil be a pretty, rather than just utilitarian house dress, so I will probably add a flounce to the collar.