We love putting together our looks for Cup Week and heading out to Flemington Racecourse. Melbourne Cup is hosted on the first Tuesday in November and is known as the race that stops the nation. The day is filled with bright vibrant colours and we pick our fabrics to reflect this.
Erin’s Outfit
This dress is a classic hackathon from the Two Sewing Sisters. The bodice or Vogue 8494 with the sleeve of New Look 1619 and the skirt from Vogue 1486. All are individually great patterns but had elements that we wanted to bring together for this dress. The fabric was a velvet-textured material that gave a lush finish and was rich in colour. The combination of pink and red is a common mix for Melbourne Cup with similar hues tieing the outfits together.
Erin paired the dress with a tan shoes, a magenta and red headpiece made by Lauren and coordinating earrings.
Fabric: Spotlight
Pattern: Vogue 8494 (bodice), New Look 1619 (sleeves) and Vogue 1486 (skirt)
Headpiece: Lauren J Ritchie Millinery
Lauren’s Outfit
This week quickly became a week of jumpsuits with pockets! For this bold colour blocking look, we hacked together Vogue 9327 and Vogue 1647 (also used for Lauren’s Cup Eve outfit – see the blue jumpsuit here) with free-form peplum.
Vogue 9327 has three sleeve options, but sleeveless isn’t one of them! We want to use this pattern because we loved the neckline and darts. In addition to making it sleeveless, we also reshaped the sleeve head to bring it closer to the neck.
The fabric was a deep purple with white pinstripe that had been sitting in our stash for some time.
Lauren paired the dress with tan shoes and a marigold boater that she made.
Pattern: Vogue 9327 and Vogue 1647
Headpiece: Lauren J Ritchie Millinery
See Fergus on Melbourne Cup Day.
