A romantic and mischievous pleated skirt has long gone out of fashion. Each year, the style of the skirt is distinguished by its shape, length, texture, color, and the overall silhouette remains unchanged. Young girls love such a skirt because its lightness and plasticity emphasizes the beauty of the legs, makes the walk more elegant and soft.
A pleated skirt came into fashion from Scotland. In this country, a kilt is considered an item of national men's clothing. The practical advantages of a pleated skirt were quickly judged as they deserved, namely, not constraint in movements, comfort and appearance. Therefore, in women's fashion, a pleated skirt entered quickly. Since then, she has not lost her high position in the fashion industry and is a favorite item of clothing for many women.
Today, designers offer a huge variety of different pleats on the skirt: one-sided, narrow (corrugation), fan, bow, oncoming, wide,
asymmetric, etc. Such skirts are found among children's, school and youth clothes. Young
slender girls in a pleated skirt look flirty and mischievous. They are more likely to like short models made of denim or “plaid” fabric in “college” style. They look great with jackets, blouses, jackets, shirts, t-shirts and golfs.
But a pleated skirt is not only suitable for young coquette. There are enough styles of feminine, more restrained options. For example, a pleated skirt. Its one-sided folds, smoothed into an accordion, start from the level of the waist. They flow very attractively along the female silhouette and beautifully sway when moving. As a rule, such skirts are sewn from light and thin fabrics. Unfortunately, a pleated skirt is only suitable for slim women, she adds extra volume to the full. To work in the office, models should be selected from dense knee-length fabric with a small group of folds sewn in half length or one oncoming fold located in the middle.
The simplest pleated skirt, the base pattern of which consists of a rectangular piece of fabric, is very easy to sew. The main thing is to correctly calculate the footage of the fabric. The total tissue consumption is determined by the formula: the thigh circumference is multiplied by 3. Two-thirds of the width of the material will go to the formation of folds. Suppose you need to take 3 meters of fabric (hip circumference - 100 cm) and form 20 folds. Divide 300 cm by the number of folds, we get 15 centimeters. This is the total length of the fold, which can be distributed on the product as follows: 5 cm remains on the outside of the skirt, 10 cm will enter the fold. Thus, the entire pattern of the skirt on the wrong side is calculated and plotted. The folds are cleaved with pins, smoothed and swept to the belt. When installing the skirt panel to the belt, the surface rib of the fold is pulled up half a centimeter. This is necessary so that the folds do not separate in the future. During the first fitting, the depth of the folds is adjusted and adjusted at the waist. Then you can grind all the seams on a typewriter.
If you add the upper part with tucks to the fabric with formed folds, you get a skirt in a crease on the yoke. Such a skirt can be worn even by girls with full hips, because the coquette hides the flaws of the figure. You can combine it with any blouses, cardigans, trousers.