Variations on the same theme, around lace!

The white lace blouse is a terribly seductive piece. Choosing a beautiful lace immediately gives an extra soul to your garment: embroidery, cutouts, material effects, lace is an enhancer of elegance. By turns retro, wise and romantic, or more disruptive and rock, the immaculate lace blouse is more versatile than it seems.

To introduce you to the new white lace from our Clair Obscur capsule , I sewed the Soliflore blouse pattern. I wanted to avoid overloading the silhouette with ruffles or other frills, and this sewing pattern combines a clean cut with pretty details: a remarkable high collar and the presence of buttons that punctuate the cut.

Soliflore dress/blouse sewing pattern - Lace ,cotton voile and Ecru buttons Maison Fauve

I used our new Wink Mat Ecru buttons, which have a gold detail in the center. For the collar and cuffs, I used our Ecru cotton voile and interfaced using the interlining method that I describe in the Cicadella blouse video step-by-step (the video is available here ).

To create the look around my lace blouse, I chose two very different silhouettes: the first more everyday, the second more formal.

Blue jeans white shirt... But in lace!

For this first look, I wear my blouse with very faded Sézane jeans and little white trotters (the Zizi by Repetto). The very light and slightly faded blue of the pants matches softly with the white of my blouse and I wear it with the bottom cut straight and frayed (it's my grunge side ;)). The Zizi are thin and flexible leather shoes. Androgynous, they bring lightness and modernity to the outfit and break the easily "flowery" side of the whole.

Black and white, very "grand soir"

For this second outfit, I opted for a more studied look: white lace blouse over deep black pants. Here, it's the cut of the pants that will bring energy to the whole: the Brooklyn palazzo pants with their supported hips, their play of folds and their wide and long legs affirm this sophisticated masculine/feminine look. The drape and the rigor of the pants are counterbalanced by the airy side of the lace.

Brooklyn pants sewing pattern - Heavy viscose twill Onyx Maison Fauve

POWER Lace

Why limit yourself to sewing a blouse when your entire wardrobe can be made of pretty lace! Pants , skirts , shorts , shirts , dresses , and even bobs , all audacity is allowed. The idea remains the same: do not limit lace to frilly little tops. The possibility of wearing our fabric with or without lining depending on your choice of clothing opens up the possibilities.

A straight shirt with Skyline

Skyline Shirt Sewing Pattern

A pretty top easy to sew with Marisa

Marisa top sewing pattern

The bold way in a Viper jumpsuit

Viper dress/jumpsuit sewing pattern

A twirling dress in Mia

Mia dress/blouse sewing pattern

There is no limit to your desires, especially since it is not such a difficult fabric to sew: our lace does not slip, it does not deform when cut and when assembling, you can iron it easily at medium temperature, it does not fray when sewing and you can choose your finishes by overlocking the seam allowances, by placing a bias cut in our white cotton voile or by making English seams (by adapting the seam allowances of your pattern). Will you succumb to the beauty of lace?