New Look 6892 Smock Blouse

イギリス駐在期間が5月末まで伸びました。まだその後どうなるのかは全く未定。1か月ごとに延長されるよりはよし。そんなわけでオンラインショッピングで新しい布注文。
ブラウスを作りました。
型紙は以前使ったニュールックの6292番。
布は木綿にちょっとライクラが入って伸びがあるシアサッカー。
出来上がった感想は、あれだね、保育所のスモックを着ている気分。袖のあたりが特に。

The Man of the House's expat contract got extended (again) until the end of May, so I bought some new fabric and I made a peasant style blouse.

The pattern is New Look 6892. I used it twice before.
This time, I made View A, the long sleeve version.

The fabric is navy blue cotton/Lycra seersucker with black stripes.

I cut a size 10 and made the following modifications:
-Shortened the bodice by 1" (but then ended up shorter than I wanted so I used 3/8" hem to compensate).
-Lowered the center front by 1.5".
-Cut the sleeve at the casing line to omit the cuff ruffles.
-Added ties to contain the back bagginess.
-Narrowed sleeves at the elbow.

I wanted to have a sort of bishop sleeve. Below is my modified sleeve pattern on top of the original. I kept the original raglan line, then narrowed about 2" each side at the elbow (View B line), then flared it back out. I think my intention was good, but the fabric was a bit too stiff to have a "poof" that I waned and the cuff gather is a bit too bulky.

I do not like the pattern's wide neck design, and I am basically using a shorter neck elastic to bring the sleeve up near my neck. But I can definitely feel the pulling of the sleeve and I think I will have to add some more shoulder coverage on the pattern itself to be 100% comfortable to wear.

There is also too much fabric in the back. I should have followed the adjustment I did last time by taking in at CB to reduce the width of back bodice.

The fabric was much stiffer than I expected. I hope a few cycles of laundry will soften it up a bit. The color and the shape of the blouse really reminds me of my daycare smock, which was a uniform that every kid had to wear over regular clothes (with a tulip shaped name badge). Yeah, I was once a cute 5 year-old day care girl.