So, Closet Core Patterns released a new pattern and I managed to resist for, like, an entire two weeks before I purchased it!

That may just be a personal record for Closet-Core-restraint, for me!

But, ultimately, resistance is futile.

And I caved.

Oh, how I caved!

So here we have a double dip into the Elodie Wrap Dress, the latest release from Closet Core patterns.

Dipping my toes into the Elodie Wrap Dress

I decided to start out by sewing the Elodie Wrap Dress exactly out of the envelope.

Makes sense as a starting point, right?

My Elodie Wrap Dress is a size 16 from the 0-20 size range, which suits my smaller bust better. This version combines the longer sleeved option (view B) with the midi length skirt.

The fabric here is “tropic flowers” viscose from See you at Six. I bought mine from Meter Meter.

Now, usually, with a brand new pattern, this is the point at which I would have a lot to say. About what didn’t work. What I found hard.

Here, I don’t have a whole lot to offer you guys because it was just all pretty straightforward and simple.

I added in-seam pockets to my version, because the patch pockets included in the pattern will be nice in linen or something sturdier, but obviously won’t work in a light drapey fabric. If anything, perhaps the lack of an inseam pocket option being included is my one bug-bear with the Elodie Wrap Dress, but, at the same time, I understand the rationale in not including them. I’m fully aware that an inseam pocket in a light drapey viscose isn’t going to hold a lot, but I still prefer to have a weak pocket than none at all!

One of the main claims of the Elodie Wrap Dress is that it is a wrap dress which does not gape. On my body, this claim holds up. I feel very secure up top when wearing this, making it a highly practical wardrobe addition. I’d even go so far to suggest that the Elodie Wrap Dress looks quite chaste on me at least!

The one area where I was worried, being a wrap dress, was whether there is enough overlap at the front, between the skirt piece on top and that underneath.

All in all, I think the Elodie Wrap Dress does this well and I do not feel exposed or that I am flashing leg while wearing this.

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Elodie Wrap Dress No. 2

My second Elodie Wrap Dress is pretty much my definition of the perfect autumn dress.

I’m hoping she can rock it with tights and a turtleneck underneath, but can be light and breezy for the few final days of sunshine of the year!

I’ve gone for viscose once again, this one from Pretty Mercerie. I feel that these full body photos are not really doing this lovely fabric justice and it’s photographing a little “washed out”. This is what the fabric looks like closer up.

I knew that I wanted to sew this one with a tiered gathered skirt! Don’t really know why, something about this fabric just kept telling me that was what it wanted.

This time around, I extended the waistband and bodice by about 10cm in length in order to provide me with a dress front where my overlapping front skirt piece will reach the side seam, giving me maximum possible wrap coverage.

I wanted to expirement with a slightly wider tie belt and waistband too, so to accomodate this, I shortened the bodice by 2cm and then added this width into the waistband. I also messed up my measurements and didn’t end up adding enough width to my ties pieces, which are no actually narrower than my waistband.

So don’t look too closely! Luckily a dark and detailed print will hide a multitude of sins!

The combination of the raised bodice and the extension of the wrap coverage makes the wrap “cross” at the front quite differently from my first version and I really like the overall effect that it creates on the neckline of this Elodie Wrap Dress.

Apart from that, that’s pretty much it.

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The skirt is, most obviously, three layers of rectangles of increasing width. There was no mathematical formula involved in this whatsoever.

It was simply a matter of seeing how much fabric I had and figuring out the maximum sized pieces that I could cut out of what I had.

To achieve this midi-length, on my body, I have three even tiers which are each 25cm long, plus the seam allowance.

Umm, not sure what else I can say except that, ahh, the Elodie Wrap Dress sure twirls…

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