Breakfast @ Tiffany's Dress Liz Style

Liz rocking "the dress"

The Back

Omg! Don't we all love the dress that Givencey made Audrey Hepburn in that class 60s movie? I do and so does my girlfriend Liz. She is going to her niece's wedding and has been so excited about it for the last few months. She and I were talking about it and she mentioned that she would love to have "the dress" and asked if I could make it and of course I said let's see what we can do.

So what I did was start to research "the dress" and the reality is that it's hard to find a pattern for it. Basically it is just about impossible except for a costume that was in print for a minute and it was removed shortly after it's release and there are a few left online.  Guess the designer didn't want everyone wearing his dress. I totally respect that. However the Selfish seamstress blogger had a great dress pattern on line so that was a great starting point. We gave it a try using Burda pattern 3477    with the back yoke from the selfish seamstress pattern.

It didn't work.

The PDF was designed for a 5'2" petite dress size 2. Liz is a tall petite frame women with slightly full hips. So the pattern needed so many alteration; I decided to make it easy on myself and used the Mccalls 6201. This pattern offered 3 different bust sizes A/B, C, and D and I redrafted the back yoke after studying pictures of "the dress" to ensure that the back neckline dropped enough to show off the neckline and maybe some pearls.

It worked out perfectly for her muslin.

The fabric we chose to use was from my personal stash. It was a black matte satin with a slight stretch; perfect for an elegant black dress.

So the dress was cut and the collar required extra interfacing and organza for stability.

The dress required a knit fusible interfacing around the neckline and armcye to stabilize it.



At this point I put in a side zipper

The collar was kinda tricky

Step 1- apply interfacing and hand sew in the organza

Step 2-  Sew the collar together and leave a 1/2" to 3/4" opening at the center bottom of the collar to insert into the dress back. Also leave the shoulders ends open so the front can be attached at the shoulder seam.

attach the lining to the dress front as pattern directs



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sewing back to lining leaving 1/2 - 3/4 at the center top for inserting into collar

Open collar and attach back tab inside the collar and reinforce this seam

Note: Press all your seams along the way or you will regret it.

Step 3- Cross your fingers and tuck tab into collar and slip stitch it into place to cover your tracks.

Finish the dress as you normally would do.

                                                 "The Dress"


Liz looked amazing and was very happy with her lovely dress. It's nice to make a customer happy.

Note to readers, I'm no expert. This tecnique worked well for me and if you'd like to try it great but please remember this isn't a beginner project so proceed with caution or in other words Givencey was a master dress maker and I'm only a want to be :)

Thanks for reading my post.