Girls grow up as princesses, if treated appropriately. This requires dresses, skirts, bows and ruffles. In fact, the clothes in the girl’s life help her in the formation of her own “I”, the determination of the gender role in society. Beautiful clothes form a sense of beauty from childhood. It stays with the girl for life.
Variety of dresses
Indeed, the game of mother-daughter in childhood smoothly flows with a woman into adulthood. Any mother tries to dress her daughter like a doll. This is an essential feature of motherhood and is quite natural. Moms of boys in this matter were a little less fortunate. The scope for creativity in outfits with boys is a bit narrower than with girls. And girls are happy to support this game and allow mom to dress and decorate herself.
The main attribute of girlish beauty is the dress. And there are a lot of dresses for babies. The prices for this product vary greatly. It is not always possible to purchase the model that came to your taste. The most common outfit is a dress with a yoke. The coquette is very convenient for a children's figure in the sense that the girls have not yet formed proportions. Therefore, dresses that have a waist do not fit too well on the figure of a girl. Dress with a yoke allows you to interestingly beat the children's outfit.
What is a coquette?
All have heard many times about dresses with a yoke. So what is it? A yoke is a piece of clothing. It is located from the line of the neck and shoulder and ends above the chest. Interestingly, it can be not only in dresses. Skirts and trousers are decorated with such a detail. In this case, the coquette is located on the waist line and may be too high.
A yoke is also called a part of a shirt that connects the collar to the sleeves. Flirts for children's dresses come in several forms: round, square, triangular. From the names the basic form of the part is clear. Coquette may contain additional bends. This detail of a dress or blouse in itself becomes an adornment. The yoke is most often made of the same material as the entire product, but in two layers.
Yoke decor
A dress with a yoke can completely do without additional accessories. If you want to decorate the model, then the part can be made of material contrasting in color. You can decorate the yoke with embroidery. Then the product becomes ethnic.
For evening dresses, this part can be made of lace that is close or, conversely, of the opposite color. Such a dress with a yoke for women becomes especially elegant. The addition of lace insert with sequins or shiny beads will make the outfit simply magical.
An interesting solution is the edging of the coquette in a different shade. Such decoration suits strict office dresses. The model is becoming more interesting. In a boring dress code, the bright edging of the yoke becomes a fresh note.
Decorative accents are often used in wedding dresses. In this case, the designer’s imagination gets freedom. Coquette is decorated with rhinestones, flowers, lace elements.
History of coquette
Flirts in Russian dresses can be found among sundresses of simple peasant women. Marfushenka-darling from the movie "Frost" dressed up in a red dress with a yoke. Such trapeze sundresses were characteristic for tailoring peasant sundresses of the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.
In Europe, the coquette appeared much earlier. Such dresses can be found on portraits of Flemish and German painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was used in the case when it was not possible to tailor a dress from a single canvas and fit it beautifully in shape.
How to sew a dress with a detachable yoke?
Patterning a dress on a yoke is a bit simpler than a regular dress. Such outfits are good for girls. The easiest way to tailor a round yoke. In this case, such a piece of clothing will simultaneously perform the function of the neck and sleeves. A small instruction:
- To build a coquette, it is necessary to measure the girth of the neck and the length of the clavicle.
- From mathematics, we take the formula for the circumference and calculate the radius using both numbers. The inner and outer radius of the coquette is obtained.
- Three centimeters for seams and allowance should be added to the numbers obtained.
- Fold the yoke in half and attach to a piece of paper.
- Next, measure the length of the dress and measure it down from the yoke.
- You should draw a trapezoid, which at the top ends with a yoke. Underneath, make armholes for the sleeves.
- To the resulting trapeze also add two centimeters to the seams and assembly.
- You can transfer the pattern to the material. On the yoke, it should be noted where the trapezoid will be sewn.
- The assembly and processing of the model follows.
Baby dress with a round yoke is ready.
Other options
Another simple version of a dress with a yoke for a girl is as follows:
- For his pattern, you will need any ready-made dress, preferably a straight cut.
- It should be attached to the paper for the pattern and circle.
- Set eight to nine centimeters down from the front and back of the neck and connect in a semicircle to the upper point of the armhole for the sleeves. The dress is divided into two parts: a yoke and a trapeze.
- Every detail must be transferred to the material, not forgetting the allowances.
- Next, you need to sew a dress and process the seams and edges.
- The coquette for both variants of the dress can be sewn from a material whose color differs from the color of the dress itself.
For the third variant of decorating such a dress, it is necessary to cut the trapezoidal lower part a little wider and, when stitching with a yoke, perform small folds. It already requires a slightly higher level of skill.
Dress with crochet yoke
On little fashionistas, knitted dresses with delicate patterns look very original. Such dresses with a knitted yoke can even not very experienced knitters craft. For each model of the dress, there is a special description of the patterns of the coquette itself and the canvas. The coquette can be round and square. The first is much easier to tie, the second will require attention and perseverance.
A square coquette for a dress contains fewer patterns and also serves as a sleeve. Which form to choose is exclusively a matter of taste. The principle of knitting the product is approximately the same. Usually the pattern of the coquette and the main fabric of the dress are different.
The round coquette is knitted down from the neck.
It is necessary to dial a chain of loops so that the child’s head passes.
In the next row, double crochet and air loops alternate. The subsequent rows are knitted by alternating knitting from one loop of two single crochet columns and air loops.
A couple of rows fit so, and then the number of air loops increases to two and then to three.
The width of the coquette is selected individually for each model. When the coquette is finished, it is visually divided into four parts (two sleeves, a back and a front). The finished insert should be folded in half and continue knitting in a circle in those places where the back and front of the dress. Sleeves remain free.
Square yoke
The square shape is a little more complicated in the technique of execution. The main difference is that the increase in the loops does not occur along the entire length, but in strictly defined places - at the corners of the part. These places of increase form a kind of raglan and go from the neck to the armpit. The sleeve in this case is a “wing”.
The coquette comes to an end, as a rule, in the middle of the chest. Next, connect the opposite corners of the part and begin to knit the fabric of the dress itself. Usually a square yoke does not contain a pattern and consists simply of single crochet posts. It can be decorated with small beads, weaving them into the part. To do this, use the hook of a smaller number.
Combined model
Recently, a combination of different texture materials in one model is gaining popularity. Dress with a yoke is the best suited for such experiments. Such things can not be found in a clothing store. They are made exclusively to order and for a specific figure.
A frequent option is the combination of a knitted top and fabric of the dress. Or vice versa. Such models for children are practically not sewn. Patterned bottom often have adult dresses. The coquette in this case has an elongated shape - an oval or rectangle. The part does not fit in a circle, but remains not closed and then fastens with a button.
Most often, such models are decorated with beads of various calibers. The beads are not sewn, but are tied into the fabric details. In a word, the coquette very decorates the dress. Knitted bodices can be inserted not only in the dress, but also in a blouse. In this case, the knitting should be thin as lace. Such an unusual insert can refresh a thing that has lost its relevance.