All About the Jo Dress

Build Your Wardrobe with the Jo Dress

The Jo dress is an oversized, popover shirtdress with fun gathers below the front and back yokes. It features a band collar, partial placket, and a comfortable cocoon silhouette.

This dress moves best in your favorite flowy wovens, like Tencel, rayon challis, voile, lawn, or silk crepe. Or, pick a medium-weight woven for a more dramatic silhouette, like flannel or chambray.

Skye is wearing a size 2 Jo dress graded to a 4 at the hip, with 5 1/2” added to the length and 2” added to the sleeves. Her measurements are 33 3/4”, 27”, 38 1/2” and she is 5’9”.

Learn New Skills

Here are some resources to help you sew the perfect dress.

How to Sew with Rayon: What is rayon, where did it come from, and what is it good for? By Saki Jane.

Fabric Swaps for Every Season: Make the most of your patterns by learning how to vary your fabric choices for any time of year.

This month we walk you through three pattern hacks for the Jo dress.

Wondering what to pair with the Jo dress? Get inspired by Seamwork Style.

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Shop for Fabric

The Jo dress has plenty of design ease, so when you pick a fabric, keep in mind that it will fit loose. Think about the silhouette you’d like and how you want the fabric to fall on your body.

For a more floaty, breezy silhouette, pick a lightweight woven like lawn, voile, rayon challis, or silk crepe.

For a little more body, pick a medium weight woven like Tencel, shirting, or chambray. To add a little warmth in colder weather, choose flannel.

Love the samples in this month’s issue? Here is where we sourced the fabric.