The Kinfolk Dress – Button Up Expansion Pack

Turn your Kinfolk Dress into a shirt-waist dress with this easy expansion pack!

 

This is not a complete pattern – you will need your original Kinfolk Dress pattern to use this expansion pack.

 

Have you always thought the Kinfolk Dress would look great as a button-up shirt waist style? Me too! Which is why I’ve created a button-up expansion pack so that you can get even more use out of your original Kinfolk Dress pattern.

 

The Details

The Kinfolk Button-up Expansion Pack includes pattern pieces and instructions for making a full or partial button up Kinfolk Dress.

Improving the original Kinfolk Dress is a tall order – it’s 40s bohemian style and part-Kaftan part wrap-style dress silhouette is what breezy everyday dresses are made of. But adding a shirt-waist dress option steps everything up a notch, making Kinfolk the dress to fill multiple wardrobe gaps – there’s now a view for every occasion.

PLUS: Attention all nursing carers, or carers-to-be, this expansion pack is perfect for you! Kinfolk’s relaxed silhouette is great for growing bumps anyway, but adding a functional button-up centre front means easy access any time, all while looking effortlessly stylish and feeling totally comfortable.

 

Using your Expansion Pack

I’ve designed this expansion pack so that there is no need to re-print your Kinfolk Dress pattern. Simply print out the expansion pattern, tape the relevant pieces onto your current paper pattern pieces, and you’re away laughing.

Your Expansion Pack includes expansion button placket pattern pieces for your main dress paper pattern, facing pattern pieces and the additional instructions needed for constructing a button-up Kinfolk dress.

When you’re ready to make the original version again, just fold the expansion pieces out of the way and continue as usual. This is all laid out, step by step, in your Expansion Pack Instructions.

Please note that the expansion instructions refer to your original instructions often where techniques and steps are the same – so keep these handy during construction.

 

Sizing

Check out the new Size Guide Info here. The Kinfolk Dress + Button Up Expansion includes both the Original and Curve size ranges. The Original includes sizes 6-24 with A to D cup bodices, and the Curve includes sizes 16 to 34 with C to F cup bodices.

You can read about the new sizing here.

 

Fabric Options

Check out the original Kinfolk Dress listing here for fabric recommendations.

 

Meet the Models

Tatenda – Curve, pink jacquard cotton

Tatenda is wearing an 18D Curve Kinfolk Dress partial button-up expansion. The waist is graded out to a 20 along with the hip.

The princess seam was lowered an additional 2cm to suit Tatenda’s lower full bust height and a small sway back adjustment was made, removing a 1cm wedge from the centre back out to nothing at the sides. The hemline was shortened by 6cm to account for Tatenda being shorter than the 170cm (5’7″) height Kinfolk is designed for. These are all usual adjustments for Tatenda.

• High Bust: 104cm / 41″
• Full Bust: 112cm / 44 1/8″
• Waist: 97cm / 38 1/4″
• Hip: 122cm / 48″
• Height: 157cm / 5’2″

 

Jen – Original, denim

Jen wears a 10C Original Kinfolk Dress full button-up expansion, graded out to a size 12 waist.  No other adjustments were made to the pattern.

• High Bust: 84cm / 33 1/8″
• Full Bust: 89cm / 35″
• Waist: 73.5cm / 29″
• Hip: 99.5cm / 39 1/8″
• Height: 170cm / 5″ 7′