Making a Dress to wear to a Wedding with The Historically Adequate Atelier Butterick Retro Pattern

In this weeks video I am sewing a a dress to wear to my husband s cousins wedding. Phew that s a mouthful After a whole lot of searching, a couple mockups, and some second guessing I finally decided to combine 2 patterns to create the dress I was looking for. Simplicity Pattern 4707 from the Historically Adequate Atelier on etsy turned out to be a great PDF pattern. The seller did a wonderful job transferring the original pattern into PDF format and the written instructions were clear. I will happily buy from them again Butterick Retro Pattern B5880 once again I struggled with sizing on a Butterick pattern. I m beginning to think I should abandon the measurements for these patterns and simply mock up whatever size I am in retail stores. Of course this means I ll have to go to an actual store and try clothes After resizing and alterations I found that I do like the skirt pattern from this retro reprint and might even try making the full dress at some