About the time my sister made her pink pleated skirt, we got a box of vintage patterns that had belonged to my grandmother. Among those was the “famous” Simplicity 8390 blouse that I might have already mentioned once or twice before. At the same time I made mine, my sister also made one. But this post isn’t about that.
Since we both chose to use the same flowered black fabric, she needed a good color skirt to go with it, and she decided on a black one. Again, same cheap polyester fabric we made a lot of stuff out of back then. This skirt would also be pleated, but with a different style of pleats than the pink skirt.
I’m not sure what exactly these pleats are called. I’ve heard the term knife pleats, but this skirt has a single box pleat in the center front so the pleats on either side would be symmetrical. Is that how pleated skirts are typically done? Not sure, but that’s what she decided to do.
The technique is much the same as the pink skirt: a rectangle of fabric that marked, folded, and ironed so the top edge of the pleats matches the waist measurement. Again, it’s sewn to a waistband finished with topstitching, and a button and zipper closure.
This time, the closure is on the side instead of in the back as in previous skirts she made. Also, the zipper is hidden under a pleat, much more than with the pink skirt. You can’t see it at all without lifting up the pleat.
Isn’t that perfect? Totally hidden.
That’s about it for this skirt; next I’ll show the blouse she made it for.