You can spend a lot of money on these different kinds of floor length skirts or you can master a simple floor length skirt pattern and alter it to suit your needs.
How to make a floor length skirt.
Join the two short edges and you will get the skirt tube.
However you can also make a beautiful skirt without a pattern by making a floor length circle skirt.
Use the width of the folded fitted skirt as a guide for how wide to make the waistband of your circle skirt.
Tighten tulle loops and you re done.
A circle skirt has plenty of sweep and movement and can be paired with an elegant camisole for the look of a ball gown with very little effort.
One way to make a ball gown skirt is to look at commercial patterns and select a skirt you like.
Begin by cutting a u shape into the front of the skirt.
Skirt knee length or longer scissors sewing machine.
Now let s divide 106 62 by 2 and we have our finished skirt length and we have.
This means if i choose to cut my circle skirt as a full circle skirt from just one piece of fabric the length of the finish skirt cannot be longer than 53 31 centimetres.
Hem the bottom edge and turn under the top edge to make an elastic waistband.
Fold this in half making it 5 inches tall by your width whatever that number is.
Finding the circle skirt length on your body.
Trim bottom of skirt to make it floor length.
105 62 2 53 31cm.
Now to finish the top make sure your skirt is still inside out.
Whether you want to take your own photos or arrange a professional shoot these skirts photograph beautifully.
Make sure you ve marked off the highest length you want to cut plus an inch for the hem.
We had a two layer skirt so we first cut the inside layer and repeated the process with the second layer.
Cut a piece of fabric that is the same width as the top of your skirt and is about 10 inches tall.
Adjust elastic as necessary.
Place skirt on model.
Floor length skirts run the gamut from casual summer day wear to formal evening attire and can be made from a variety of fabrics and textures for drastically different looks.