Let's draft the pattern for this dressy blouse. You can sew it in a precious silk satin for the style in the photo or in any other lightweight fabric if you prefer to have something for everyday use.
Start from a basic block with darts and shirt appropriate wearing ease (8cm to bust circumference and 6cm to waist one, for example).
You can learn our method for drafting perfectly made to measure basic blocks (contoured ones, and the ones with wearing ease) and for fitting them in our basic blocks course/module 1.
First, draw the new hemline parallel to waistline (2-3cm beklow it) on back, and slanted downward on center front. Keep the line slightly curved.
Then draw the new neckline, the underbust line and the new armhole and princess lines to it for dart manipulation.
Get the back and cut through all lines. You get:
Then get the front and cut through all lines. You get:
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