Plain Modest
Cape Dress
Practical dress for every day wear
This lovely dress provides modest coverage, while maintaining an effortlessly plain and beautiful look. The plain beauty of this dress keeps you looking neat and tidy, while still looking elegant.
To be comfortably worn every day, this dress has many practical details. All these details, including its pockets, make this dress a pleasure to be in.
Pockets
Every dress needs pockets to be of practical use.
This dress has several of them.
Classic Style Dress
This basic dress embodies the classic style of a ladies dress.
Modest Cape
The loose and uninterrupted cape grants this dress with additional modesty and a neat look.
Reachable Zippers
Due to zipper placement at the side and shoulder, they are easily reachable without struggle.
Apron design
This dress is specifically designed to be worn with an apron.
Plain
Being unpatterend, uni-color and without any frills, this
dress hold to the ideals of essential and plain clothing.
Origin
This dress holds to the basics of a classic ladies dress, that emerged in the 18th century.
This simple dress is the essence of a plain dress, offering a simple and humble look.
Its pattern-less plain color makes it fashion-independent and timeless.
This plain dress focuses on maintaining a plain and simple appearance.
Its basic cut, with with no frill and being made of a pattern-less fabric, in a single muted color, emphasizes the plain look.
All zippers and pockets are hidden to keep the simple and uniform appearance.
Basic Dress
The dress aims for a classical appearance of a basic dress.
Its essentials are the high neckline, the straight sleeves reaching the wrists, and the full skirt,
gathered at the waist, reaching the ankle.
The full skirt allows ease of movement.
For extra modesty this dress has an added cape.
A customizable pattern for a cape dress is available for free.
Cape
The dress has a full cape in front and back, which is firmly attached to the bodice,
providing uncomplicated extra coverage.
It has a gentle gathering for a bit looser, modest fit over
the bust and is wide, reaching over the shoulder.
The front and back parts are made of single pieces, without any
gaps or tailoring, providing a pure appearance.
The cape edge is properly hemmed with a wide hem, fully
hiding the serging. The improved cape pattern provides a
straight shoulder line without warping.
Zipper
Dresses with a zipper in the back are inconvenient to open and close, because the zipper is a struggle to reach.
This dress has a convenient side zipper, which can be reached easily. It allows to comfortably putting on or taking off the dress.
The side zipper is reversed, to have the zipper handle away from the arm pit when worn, hidden down in the skirt.
The side zipper is reversed, to have the zipper handle away from the arm pit when worn, hidden down in the skirt.
The shoulder zipper handle is slid into a small gap and hidden under the cape.
Without any extra seam or cover, this makes the cape look like no zipper is present at all, providing a clean and neat look.
Pockets
A dress to be worn every day has to have pockets to to practical, but most dresses are lacking them. This dress offers 3 pockets in total, which are being placed unobtrusively.
There is a regular hidden inside pocket on either side of the skirt.
A further pocket, concealed under the apron, can hold small items like keys, papers or a mobile phone.
It is closable with a zipper to prevent valuables from slipping out.
Designed for Apron
This dress is designed to be worn with an apron.
It has a waistband between bodice and skirt for an apron to sit on, so that it will not sit on the skirt nor the cape.
The apron support flap in front of the dress, being hidden underneath the apron, prevents the apron from slipping throughout the day.
To stay in place, the flaps of apron and dress are attached, using the button.
This prevents the apron from sliding down or sideways.
Sewing Details
The plain style of this dress is makes it long-lasting, being easy to maintain and simple to care for.
Wide seam allowances of 1" at bodice and skirt allow for some adjustments in case of weight changes.
This allows the dress to be altered according to the wearer and be worn longer.
The skirt hem is 2" wide, for optional length adjustments.
The waist band seams are fully covered on the inside and have no raw seams at the waist. The neckline is understitched. The cape seam is fully covered without raw edges on the inside of the cape.
The waist band seams are fully covered on the inside and have no raw seams at the waist. The neckline is understitched. The cape seam is fully covered without raw edges on the inside of the cape.
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