No short shorts can replace a light skirt in the hot summer season, especially made with your own hands. The advantage of this type of clothing is that the femininity and romance that a woman gives a dress or skirt will be relevant at any time of the year and in any case, whether it's shopping with friends, a romantic date or home gatherings.
And you can easily find skirt patterns for girls or women in specialized magazines, at the same time spending time with pleasure or teaching your daughters the basics of needlework. In winter it can be a thick velvet or even woolen skirt with a lining, in the offseason it can be long to the floor with a cut (one or two), and also to the knees from slightly lighter, but still warm materials such as cashmere or jeans. And in the heat you can be occupied with a pattern of a summer long skirt made of chiffon or a short one made of cotton, linen and even silk and satin. In addition, this element of the wardrobe is suitable for almost any shoe and outerwear, whether it be: shoes, heeled sandals, sandals or ballet shoes, a light summer coat, a shortened denim jacket or cardigan. You can look every day in a completely new way, simply combining a skirt with different shirts and blouses from your closet and complementing with discreet accessories such as long beads or pendants.
The pattern of a summer long skirt, perhaps, will take the least amount of time and effort, as well as sewing it, and the result will visually lengthen the legs and emphasize the best curves of the figure. This is truly a universal element of clothing that should be present in the wardrobe of every young girl or mature woman.
Getting to cutting
To begin with, you should choose which pattern of a summer long skirt will suit you the most. You can make it with a flat, oblique or asymmetric hem, from a smooth material or pleated, simple or with sexy cuts. You can also sew it both on a wide elastic band, and with a hard belt with straps for a belt, simple cut with an assembly or a skirt on a yoke. In any case, the pattern will not take much time, and since you will sew by your standards, then it will sit on you perfectly. For the material, it is better to choose lightweight, even flying fabrics, so that the skirt can easily succumb to gusts of warm wind, showing beautiful legs. So, we will choose the simplest option - a pattern of a summer long skirt with an elastic band. First you need to take three measures: the waist and hips, as well as the length of the future product. For the material, we select the most relevant this year - pastel chiffon with a light floral print. You can make the skirt in several layers so that it does not shine through, or you can literally buy a meter of artificial silk in a suitable color and sew a lining 2-2.5 times shorter than the future product.
Sewing
On the fabric, draw a rectangle, one of whose sides will be equal to the length of the future skirt, and the second - to your hips + 10-15 cm, to get a small assembly. All edges of the resulting workpiece should be processed so that they do not crumble. Then we sew it and the lining with the right side to the rubber band cut in advance according to your waist and connect the free edges.