Our 7 Favorite Summer Shirtdress Sewing Patterns 

Now I want to make a shirt dress. So many choices.

I love the Lyra by Tilly and the buttons. I’m in the buttons, some kind of collar (even mandarin) and waist seam/band/shaping camp. In my mind a shirt dress needs to be kind of like a men’s white shirt they wore to the office in the 1940’s. But the sleeves, type of collar and skirt could be up to design choice.

The filippa by Fibre Mood is one of my favourite shirt dresses as it is so quick to sew up!! I think the definition of a shirt dress which something which looks like a shirt if you cut it into a top and bottom

Snaps would be cool! Great

The Rosa was my favorite ❤❤

A shirtdress in my mind is the classic fifties-style collared button-down dress with a fitted top and full skirt.

My favourite is McCall's 6696. Two different skirts and bust cups.

I tried clicking on your link to the blog post and got an error 404. Love your podcast and videos! Thanks for all you do to educate and promote sewing!

For me, a shirt dress is a dress shaped like an extra-long shirt, that you might cinch at the waist with a belt. It wouldn't have a waist seam. It would have collar and cuffs. It looks distinctively like menswear, but in dress. That's why I've always loved them.

Hi Sarai, hi Haley! Can you please share the details on your beautiful shirt dresses? 🙏 I’d also love to see ideas on how to hack seamwork dresses to get those looks! 😍 (A blogpost or vid would be amazing!!)

Super cute dresses. My favorite ready to wear shirt dress is by Gary graham I get tons of compliments then I wear it though the fight to keep the girls from busting out is intense. So looking forward to trying Chantelle now that I've opened my mind to shirt dresses. 💞 I am very short at 5ft so I don't know they always made me feel like I was wearing a shirt that was too big on me and no pants. Like Winnie the pooh 😂

It’s 6:20pm ET here, and your link isn’t working for me. Buttons, buttons, buttons make a shirt dress for me! I’m happy to see the one with the curved neckline because I like to mix things up! Even if it’s not technically a “shirt” dress with a collar, I love that neckline on me. 😊

I think a traditional shirt dress, needs a collar and buttons, however a more modern shirt dress can be scoop neck, but without the bottom up, but still needs some sort of sleeve and a fitted shape.

Great suggestions! One thing though…scrolling so far through the images doesn’t let anyone really see the dresses and it can make a person sea sick.

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I think shirt dresses have both a collar and button up

Hello (Link not working) ! Cant believe the Colette Penny didnt make your shortlist ....!

Funny, I thought shirt dresses did not have a waist seam.

What dress is on the dress form in the back? Is it the Killian?

IMO Hughes is not a shirt dress. At all. Scoop neck. I'm here because I'm searching for a pattern that would make something like the terrific $400 princess seam shirt dress I tried on recently. No luck so far. Chantelle is too short and shift-like in silhouette, and the collar is smaller than what I'm after. Did you happen to see any patterns for a longer dress with princess seams and a generous collar, preferably with a partial stand?