A few years ago, I used the Sim­plic­i­ty 8875 Miss­es’ Dress Sewing Pat­tern to sew a dress for East­er. I thought the Sim­plic­i­ty sewing pat­tern was a cute design and dif­fer­ent than any­thing I had worn in the past. This v‑neck and girly style was­n’t the dress I would nat­u­ral­ly grav­i­tate towards. But the style was becom­ing more and more pop­u­lar with design­ers and influ­encers (DVF’s grand­daugh­ter cre­at­ed a line of dress­es like this), so I decid­ed to try this roman­tic dress style and add some­thing new to my wardrobe. 

The fem­i­nine dress has a deep v neck­line, high and long waist­line, pleat­ed sleeves, and mid length and ruf­fled hemline.

I use sewing pat­terns (instead of mak­ing self-draft­ed pat­terns) to save myself time in the design, pat­tern­mak­ing, and con­struc­tion process. How­ev­er, I did not save any time using S8875 sewing pat­tern and I only wore the dress once, which was for Easter.

My body shape isn’t too hard to fit, so I was sur­prised when this dress fit so poor­ly on me. I prob­a­bly spent more time seam rip­ping and doing alter­ations than I did sewing the pat­tern pieces togeth­er. It was a night­mare and not the quick sewing project I had hoped for when choos­ing this com­mer­cial pattern.

Sim­plic­i­ty Pat­terns low-price tag is tempt­ing, but (from my expe­ri­ence) their gar­ments don’t fit as nice­ly as oth­er brands- even if you fol­low their siz­ing charts. (Noth­ing com­pares to their $1.99 sales!) 

Here are some sug­ges­tions for oth­er seam­stress­es: Kwik Sew Pat­terns have the best instruc­tions. (I high­ly rec­om­mend this brand for begin­ner seam­stress­es.) Bur­dastyle Pat­terns are my favorite! They have the best styles, they send a mag­a­zine full of new pat­terns every month to sub­scribers, and pat­terns are easy to adjust because they don’t include seam allowances. Vogue Pat­terns fit well and have great instructions.

Simplicity 8875 Sewing Pattern Photos on Easter Day