As a special bonus project for patrons at Aficionado tier, I'm pleased to introduce this peplum expansion for the Café Culture dress.

I'm delighted to introduce the Café Culture Dress, an elegant day or cocktail dress with mid-late 1940s styling. This is a beginner-friendly pattern, with a relaxed fit and no sleeves to set in.

The Sophisticate tea dress features ruched shoulder yokes which meet at a V-neckline above a sweetheart shaped lower bodice. The skirt side front panels are gathered into hip yokes and fall in soft folds, echoing the ruching in the bodice.

Although the later 1920s had seen the middy relegated to activewear, sailor styles enjoyed a resurgence in the 1930s. The Telegraph Herald in 1934 declared nautical style "quite the newest Paris favorite [...] most attractive and so decidedly new".