Since I failed to finish the purple wool tweed suit by summer (not that it’s stayed above 65 for more than an hour!), I think I’ll fail to finish a seersucker suit before summer ends! This black classic candy stripe seeresucker from Mood is just lovely.
If I made Vogue 6399 (mid-1960s), I might finally start the reflective tweed version (having gained the confidence with the pattern making it in the seersucker).
BUT! I think this Butterick from 1968 speaks more to the seersucker.
The differences in the dresses are meaningful. The vogue is princess-seamed, where the Butterick is shaped by a long dart. The armholes looks fairly similar, but the necklines are each cut to work with their very different jackets and are not at all the same: high and straight for the Butterick; rounded and wide for the Vogue. Both jackets have bracelet-length sleeves and neither has a button hole. The Butterick does a button-link closure, where the Vogue uses button and loop.
The Butterick, despite the higher neck seems jauntier, and more casual. The princess-seamed Vogue seems more formal and elegant to me, particularly its jacket--collarless, shaped by side panels and slightly longer- While I like seersucker, I don’t think it’s “elegant”.
Neither pattern has pockets--in the jacket or the dress. There’s another opportunity to practice that. I think jackets should have inner pockets, so I’ll read up on adding those.
I plan to line the jacket with this voile.
It will contrast without showing through and is pretty. True to form, the Vogue is lined per the pattern, but the Butterick is not. I may line the dress with a solid white for opacity but I don’t care for an unlined jacket in most cases and though it’s extra steps, it’s not difficult, especially if you don’t bother to line the sleeve.
I don’t know if leaving the sleeve unlined is reasonable or just lazy. It will keep the jacket cooler to have fewer layers (sadly, the seersucker is a poly-cotton blend). The jacket is intended to be worn with a sleeveless dress (so it does not need to slide over the fabric of another sleeve). And no-one ever sees the inside of a sleeve (unlike the inside of a jacket), so there’s nothing to hide!