This may be the question you ask yourself the most when you are thinking about what to wear for the holidays. Should I choose a traditional Christmas outfit or something more elegant? Will I be overdressed or too casual?
To help you choose something according to your style I am going to leave these two ideas of outfits for each style to inspire you.
DIY Traditional Christmas Outfit
If you already know me you know that I love to make my own clothes and at Christmas I always use to release a special dress for these dates. And this year that everything is back to normal it was the right one. Now that we are all going to get together as a family, I want to wear something unique and special made by myself.
Victorian Christmases are my favorite and I think they best represent classic traditional Christmases, and one of my most inspired movies is Little Women.
And from that movie comes this outfit for Christmas in red and green tartan. They are the colors of Christmas and when I saw this fabric in the store it called me “buy me, buy me”.
Fabric, pattern and materials to make this Christmas outfit
In this case I used a fabric that I bought in a store in my town. It is a medium weight cotton tartan with a red fabric to make the collar and cuffs. It has an invisible zipper on one side.
The pattern for this dress is the peter pan collar dress, which you can find on my website. Also in projector, A4 and A0 format.
Elegant Christmas Outfit
Not to say that the other one is not elegant, but this dress is more classic and we usually associate it more with a more sober style. This simple and fitted dress has the detail of the lantern sleeves and the gathering at the waist. It doesn’t need any extra details, so it’s perfect.
It is very simple and quick to create, you can have it in an afternoon (if you don’t have children who can interrupt you) and release it for Christmas or New Year’s Eve.
Fabric, materials and pattern
The fabric I have chosen is a bottle green Scuba neoprene fabric from Pugutextile. It has some stretch and since it has no zipper you can put it on and take it off without it bothering you. And you can even eat without worrying about the dress being too tight.
The pattern is this Bodycon Milan dress that you have on my website in sizes from XS to 6XL. You can no longer say that there is no dress in your size. You have it in A4, A0 and projector format.