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All About the Brit Dress

Fabric resources, fitting details, and tutorials to help you build your skills.

Posted in: Sewing Patterns • January 31, 2019



Build Your Wardrobe with the Brit Dress

The Brit dress is quick to sew and easy to wear, and it has details that won’t go out of style. Featuring a modest bateau neckline and full-length bishop sleeves with cuffs, this little dress is semi-fitted throughout and hits at mid-thigh. Perfect for a range of medium-weight knit fabrics, pick your favorite knit for Brit, from French terry and ponte for a comfortable silhouette, to hacci and rib knits for a delicate fit.












Crosby is wearing a size 16 Brit dress with 1” added to the sleeves, a swayback adjustment, and 1/2” added to the hips. Her measurements are 44”, 32 3/4”, 46 1/2” and she is 5’10”.








Tutorials to Build Your Skills

The Brit dress is a perfect project to practice sewing with knits. Here are some of our favorite knits resources.




Learn How to Customize the Brit Dress





The whole Seamwork team sewed this month’s patterns! See what fabrics we chose and what modifications we made.






This month’s bonus variation adds a front neckline yoke and in-seam ruffle to the Brit dress.


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A special thanks to Sewing Studio for the Bamboo Knit in Burgundy!


Get the Perfect Fit

Brit pattern details












Sizes 0 - 16









About the fit


The Brit dress has negative ease in the bust, semi-fitted in the waist, and is fitted in the hips.





Sizes 18 - 26









About the fit


The Brit dress has negative ease in the bust, semi-fitted in the waist, and is fitted in the hips.


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