How to sew a peplum skirt
This season, world-famous boutiques, small designer showrooms, and mass markets in shopping centers have dressed their mannequins in incredibly feminine outfits of simple cut, decorated with soft flounces in the form of small wings or strict geometric lines - a basque.
With our help, you can easily sew yourself a unique super fashionable thing 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 still inhabit northern Spain and southwestern France.
You can decorate a skirt of absolutely any cut and from any fabric with a peplum. 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, beloved by fashion designers - "hourglass".
Brave women of fashion decorate not only skirts, but also dresses and blouses, and even trousers and overalls.
Straight, airy dresses and blouses with a peplum not at the waist level, but along the hem of the lowered shoulders have become especially popular this season.
With this pattern, you can sew a peplum to an already finished skirt, for example, to give new life of your old thing... 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 things.
Alternatively, you can sew a detachable peplum belt and wear it according to your mood to any item of your wardrobe - a skirt, a fitted dress and classic trousers.
IN this article you can find detailed instructions for sewing a stylish pencil skirt and diversify it with a peplum according to our patterns.
The peplum does not have to be uniform along the entire waist of the skirt: you can make it asymmetrical by lengthening the flounce at the side, front or back, or cut out a kind of "collar" at the waist in front, as in this pattern:
How to sew a skirt with a peplum
For very novice needlewomen, we will reveal the secret of sewing a skirt with a peplum without building a pattern... Such a skirt will turn out to be no worse than the one that will have to be cut, of course, provided that all your seams are even and neat.
- Spread the fabric face down on a flat surface.
- Draw a piece of soap or chalk around the contour of all the details of a ready-made (possibly store) skirt of your size, adding 2 cm at the edges for the seams.
- Use sharp scissors to cut all the pieces apart.
- From the rest of the fabric, measure a strip 15-20 cm wide and twice the length 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 finished skirt, or you want to sew a skirt of a certain model, then on our website you will find many detailed master classes on sewing skirts of a wide variety of styles in simple ways that are suitable even for beginners, for example this.
By the way, the basque is not always made wide and so obvious. You can cut the strip shorter, then the peplum will not focus so much on itself. Or, on the contrary, add another 5-10 cm to the length and width of the strip, then the skirt will turn out to be 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 a skirt like this in your summer wardrobe?
