Pattern and Instructions: The Pep Rally Skirt
Rah rah rah for the Pep Rally Skirt! This perfectly pleated wrap skirt comes in two lengths, with multiple options to personalize the styling and details.
Live your schoolgirl fantasy in a short plaid skirt with the yoke cut on the bias, or choose a longer length and suspender straps for grown-up chic.
This project is detail-focused but so worth it! We love this skirt in wool plaid or flannel, but it's also a great choice in cotton twill or other sturdy fabrics that press well and hold their shape.
You'll find the tiled file (for printing at home on A4 or letter size sheets and taping together) and the A0 file (for printing at a copy shop like ThePlottedPattern.com). Please note that we have two size blocks, so make sure to download the correct files for the size you're making. If you have any questions about which size to sew, don't forget to read our blog post with all the details!
Don’t forget to watch the companion tutorial video and then share your makes with the hashtags #charmpatterns and #peprallyskirt.
xoxo, Gertie
Comments (69)
This may be a dumb question, but how do you keep the pleats in after washing? Do you have to iron them each time?
Hi everyone! I'm watching the sew along for the skirt right now and am OBSESSED with the cat pressing ham. Where can I find the information on it? I'm not sure which crowd cast to watch or if anyone has a link....
Etsy! https://www.etsy.com/listing/918484993/dress-making-ham-tailors-ham-sleeve
Perfect for my Hogwarts legacy Uniform 😍
Any leads on cool buckles *not* from temu? (No judgement, just not a fan)
Beautiful, but how and where add pockets 🤔
Kilts never have pockets (the pleats will not sit well over pockets), that is what a sporran is for.
The mini is PERFECT. Can linen be used? It's not listed as a recommended fabric but it is a mid-weight woven.
I was literallllllyyyy planning on an all over knife pleat mini yesterday!! Thank you 🙏🏻
At first I thought nah not for me but then I found and inspiration photo I had saved and some nice fabric and I have a whole outfit planned!
I have just bought the fabric I want: orange and grey tartan to go with a raggedy jumper I love 🧡🩶🧡🩶🧡
I will have to make one for my teenage daughter first and then a long one for me <3
The mini is fabulous, but in general it's a another pass for me.
Same. I'm not even going to entertain making this.
Loving the pattern I love suspenders.
It's a Kilt (modified so easier)....Yayyyy!!!! Happy Happy Happy :-D
As a 90’s punk kid, I wore a mini skirt and doc martens at least once a week! Bad girl Gertie is giving me life! Definitely into the short version:)
Well there’s not been anything so far in this collection that suits me to make. Rather disappointing. I’m past the age of this style of clothing for me.
I'm 43 years old. I don't need to look like I'm desperately trying to recapture my youth.
the black sample is super cute but I just can't imagine having to press those pleats every wash 🙃 rajah cloth only goes so far for home pleating
How wonderful. I am looking forward to making this xxx
OMG Gertie in the short version 🤯 SO cool!!! Love the top stitching of the pleats, such a brilliant pattern 😍 My Husband wore a Kilt to the wedding (by Rettl) and now I can make a feminine one for me too and not costing € 700 👏🏻
This is literally the skirt I have been wanting to make! I'm so excited!
Cute, but a little too close to my actual school uniform, so not for me.
I do remember making skirts like this for high school -- and college!
it's the short version that does it for me... OMG I NEED this is in black!!
I was right, a pleated skirt!
OMG! I LOVE the short version! Will absolutely be making this to wear with black tights and DMs in the winter. 😍
Would it be recommended to purchase some heavy duty needles if I chose to sew the buckles?
Love the black mini!
Omg I love this! I've been making tons of shortened stanwycks and circle skirts. Fingers crossed for instructions on the bustier!!
Gertie's bustier is actually just the landis bodice that they've finished the bottom of!
So excited! I had this skirt in my younger days and loved it. Now I can actually make it!
Brilliant!!!! I love this skirt!!!!!
I used to have a tartan pleated wrap skirt when I was I kid, during the late 80’, and I remember it was just like that! Love it!
Love the 90s version! 🖤
My guess was SO off but y’all knocked it out of the park!!! So cute!!!🥰
Oh my god thank you so much for this skirt!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Super cute!!
Love love love this pattern 😍 It’s exactly the pattern I was looking for! 💕
YASSSSS!!!!!!!
Love the short version of this skirt!
well i know what i’m wearing to the next highland games!
Looooove this!
YYYEESSSSS!!!!!!!!! This is fabulous! The little riot girl in me is so happy!
Bad gal Gertie giving all the 90s vibes 😍 here for it! 🖤
I loooove the shirt version! 😍
I like it, but I’ll wait to make this for autumn.
I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS!!!! That pink one is giving me life!!!!
Omg, I love it!
I kinda love the club look. You're ready for a rave.
This skirt is SO FUN. That short skirt is bringing me back to my short skirt 90s era. Time to pull out the plaid from Scotland I've been saving!!
The short one with the mesh Barbie and those boots. In love. And I have the mesh top already so this feels like fate haha
Yay! Finally I have a perfectly pleated skirt for my collection. I love the flat front. Thanks!
Yay!! I've been wanting to make one for years but child never find the perfect pattern! Thank you!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Love it! And I am loving all the names this year too.
OMG OMG OMG OOOOMMMMMGGGGG 😍😍😍😍😍
The scream I scrumt when I saw the short version
Yes!!!! My daughter and husband were just talking yesterday about how she wants a kilt to match her dad’s authentic, made in Edinburgh, McBean kilt.
It is a kilt! And I’m happy to get a pattern for one at last xx
This is lovely!! I’ve been wanting a pleated wrap skirt like this for some time and I’m so excited to have a Gertie pattern to follow instead of “off-roading it” with a vintage pattern that is two sizes off! Thank you! I especially love the miniskirt version. Yay 😀 I’m always so impressed by the quality of the patterns from you all and I so enjoy the ‘feel the fantasy’ wrapping that Gertie and Charm so beautifully include. It’s an invitation to explore and reinvent that makes fashion seem so much more relevant and exciting for me :) 💖
I guessed correct this time :D
I have been planning to make this exact skirt from a 1991 threads instruction but now I'll just make this :) yay!
I'm totally happy you also made a CopenHell Festival shirt black and short, rdy for those metal bands
Yay!!!! I’ve ordered some of my family tartan a week ago! Now I have a pattern as well! Thanks 😊
Wow, this is better than I expected! I want one! No, three! ❤️
Sooo adorable
This is so cute - I love the option with straps!
OMG I have WANTED this, and have the perfect fabric for it!!