How to sew a peplum skirt
This season, world-famous boutiques, small designer showrooms, and mass markets in shopping centers dressed their mannequins in incredibly feminine outfits of a simple cut, decorated with soft flounces in the form of small wings or strict geometric lines - peplum.
With our help, you can easily make yourself a unique, super fashionable item by inventing a model yourself or borrowing an idea from world designers, for example from this article.
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How to sew a skirt with a peplum - pattern
By the way, this trend did not appear this year or even in the last century. In the 17th century, light flounces adorned the national men's clothing of the proud, independent Basque people, who to this day inhabit northern Spain and southwestern France.
You can decorate a skirt with a peplum of absolutely any cut and from any fabric. But, of course, the simpler the style and color of the skirt, the better it will look - then there will be no overload of details and the peplum will become its main decoration, not only emphasizing your wasp waist, but also visually creating the “correct” silhouette of the figure favored by fashion designers - the “hourglass”.
Brave fashionistas decorate not only skirts with peplums, but also dresses and blouses, and even trousers and overalls.
Straight, airy dresses and blouses with peplums not at the waist level, but along the edges of lowered shoulders, have become especially popular this season.
With this pattern you can sew a peplum to a ready-made skirt, for example, to give new life for your old item. To do this, it is not necessary to select exactly the same fabric; the contrasting color and texture of the peplum will only add sophistication and uniqueness to the item.
Alternatively, you can sew a removable peplum belt and wear it according to your mood with any item in your wardrobe - a skirt, a fitted dress and classic trousers.
B this article You can find detailed instructions for sewing a stylish pencil skirt and diversify it with a peplum using our patterns.
The peplum doesn't have to be uniform across the entire waistband of the skirt: you can make it asymmetrical by extending the flounce on the side, front or back, or cut a sort of "collar" at the front of the waist, like in this pattern:
How to sew a skirt with a peplum
For completely beginner needlewomen, we will reveal the secret of sewing a skirt with a peplum without making a pattern. Such a skirt will turn out no worse than the one that will have to be cut, of course, provided that all your seams are even and neat.
- Lay the fabric face down on a flat surface.
- Using a bar of soap or chalk, trace along the contour all the details of a ready-made (possibly store-bought) skirt in your size, adding 2 cm along the edges for seams.
- Cut out all the details with sharp scissors.
- From the remaining fabric, measure a strip 15-20 cm wide and a length equal to two times the circumference of your waist.
- Sew all the details of the skirt, focusing on the finished product.
- Gather the strip evenly and sew it into the waistband of the skirt.
If you don’t have a ready-made skirt, or you want to sew a skirt of a specific model, then on our website you will find many detailed master classes on sewing skirts of a wide variety of styles in simple ways, suitable even for beginners, for example this one.
By the way, the peplum is not always made wide and so obvious. You can cut the strip shorter, then the peplum will not draw attention to itself so much. Or, on the contrary, add another 5-10 cm to the length and width of the stripe, then the skirt will turn out elegant and festive.
And one more tip: skirts look very unusual, with a peplum not at the waist, but along the hem. So why don’t you have such a skirt in your summer wardrobe?
