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Peasant Skirt Updated for the 1950s: Simplicity  1082

This vintage sewing pattern from the 1950s mixes one of the very old skirt types with a trim bodice that was popular in the 1950s. Gathered skirts are the simplest form. Take a rectangle of fabric, gather it along the top edge, attach it to a waistband and you are done. European peasants wore these for centuries. Or, there is this version which allows you to take multiple rectangles, each one longer than the next and gather each on the top edge to attach to the smaller one. This allows the waist gathering to be less bulky while the lower tier can have a wide, wide flare. The tiers allow for trim along each edge as you see at top with rickrack or below with the strip running around the width.

This type of skirt also allows for the small waist and the large flare that marked the 1950s, a time when prosperity marked the United States, and lots of fabric was available as World War II shortages were a thing of the past. Christian Dior’s New Look from 1947 was famous for its generous use of fabrics in skirts and dresses and set the style. While Dior’s looks were luxurious, these are playful and offer versions of the fitted blouse that you see in American sportswear at the time. But notice, this is a summer party dress: each model is wearing white gloves, and little heels. The suggested fabrics include workaday cottons like gingham, but also dimity which is more fragile as is dotted swiss, and then truly fancy fabrics like shantung and taffeta which are crispy silks.