About Town Popover Top

 

My first experience using a Pattern Emporium pattern - About Town Popover shirt and dress. The look is casual, but a cut above the usual summer tee. There are plenty of style variations to choose from - cap sleeves, short or long  sleeves, cropped length, shirt length, dress length, front with a seam and front without center seam. Whew! There are several fit variations too - no bust darts, and two darted fronts - each sized by how much dart uptake needed. 

Sizing is determined (for the top) by your upper bust measurement and there are guidelines included for determining whether, or what size, dart is needed. In fact, at 70+ pages of instructions you’ll be hard pressed to find details that are not covered! Some sewists love this, some don’t, but even if you don’t it is arranged to make it easy to find any details you want/need to refer to. 

This top is version ‘no seam’ front with no darts - ‘tall’ cropped length, sleeves adapted to 3/4 length and bias binding instead of ‘built in’ cuffs provided for in the pattern. Everything went together smoothly and the fit was good. I had been a bit skeptical about basing my size on upper bust measurement, but it worked out fine. I did narrow the shoulders just a bit. Fabric is a soft cotton chambray. The rose color will work well with denim, other blues I have, and it looked good with the olive cargo pants I had on when I tried it on after sewing, so it should be a frequently reached for top in my warm weather wardrobe. Win!