Pattern and Instructions: The Hollywood Dress
The Hollywood Dress is dedicated to three icons of the silver screen: Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, and Dorothy Dandridge. This versatile design is a draped woven wrap dress with three sleeve options and two skirt lengths.
Depending on your fabric choice, you can stun in a sequined or satin evening gown, lounge in a glamorous hostess robe (as Marilyn did in Niagara), strut in a chic skirt separate (like Dorothy in Carmen Jones), or turn the fantasy into a simple everyday dress instead. So many options!
I’m so excited to shine a spotlight on these icons of Hollywood with our first pattern of the year, and I can’t wait to see what you make!
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 share your makes with the hashtags #charmhollywooddress and #charmpatterns!
xoxo,
Gertie
P.S. The Jean Harlow-inspired white sequined number with the abundance of ostrich feathers you may have seen in our new theme images is a slightly looser-fitting version of the Hollywood Dress, with another sleeve option and a long train. We're calling this one the Hollywood Robe, and it will be released to Glamour Circle+ patrons on January 15. I can't wait!
Comments (74)
I love this design- it's wonderfully elegant and I thought to make this up as a work skirt with a bit of flair in a lovely soft drapey wool, but I spend a fair bit of time sitting in a spin-y chair moving from workstation to workstation and I find that wrap skirts tend to gape a lot in the process. I was wondering if anyone had tried widening the front panel and moving the closure closer to the side seam? I'm hoping that if I shift the wrap over a bit so there's more fabric in crossover that it'll solve this problem. Has anyone tried anything like this and how did it turn out?
I wonder if I could make this as an everyday wrap dress 🤔
I love this design. This is the first time I completed a pattern on release month! I am very proud of myself. I have a 100 years in business gala for my work on February 1st and this was a perfect fit to the theme. I hope there will be a photographer at the gala so I can get and post some good pictures!
I want to let my dress to look fitted as that of Gertie. How many sizes do i have to get down? I found that this one is not true to size. I have a lot of space, especially at the bust height.
Do we think this would work in a stretch velvet?
It was designed to work for a woven. A rayon velvet would give you a similar look to a stretch velvet without the stretch!
Thinking of making the sleeveless version in a red pleated stretch satin or sequin mesh for a cruise I’m going on …
I’m a bit behind this month, but since this is woven, you could make it a little more casual too? That might work for this grungy boho girl.
Just got some velvet to make the robe version of this. I'm so excited!
Where is the download for the pattern? Love this so much and can't wait to get started!!!
The download is at the very bottom of this post next to the paperclip icons
I love this theme! I also love that you said the movies inspiration in the pattern so I can go watch them! I’ve never seen Niagara so it’s high time I watched it. Can’t wait to see where this theme goes. Also I love the idea of turning this into an outerwear peplum jacket too!
The download is on this post, at the very bottom next to the paperclip icons.
OMG, sensational, I love it and will add it to my want to have and do list...
Gorgeous
10/10!!!!!!!
LOVE this year’s theme! ✨✨
Love this years theme .... i have always loved the old hollywood glamour
Oh WOW! This is absolutely STUNNING!!! I’m absolutely making the skirt! Exquisite!!!! I see me making quite a few!!! Movitvation is HIGH!!!
I love that this is a woven!! It offers so many possibilities and feels more true to the era I can't wait to sew this, thank you!
I love this year's theme, 😍 thank you Gertie totally in love
Oh spare me! This theme!!! This dress!!! All my Christmases, my birthdays, my anniversaries, my everything, has come at once!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. PS: I really like it ;)
omg I'm so excited about this dress and this year!!
Absolutely love this - thanks for creating such a glamorous pattern!
Beautiful!
Oo the skirt version!!
This is lovely, I can't wait to make it!
Omg, I love the housecoat version. You guys know how to appeal to the homebody
I usually spend some time pondering how to turn every pattern into some form of loungewear. Having that option built in is glorious! 😍
Gorgeous as ever!!!
Loooove
I am SO SO SO happy to see a bra friendly gown! I will be making this to wear to a few weddings this year
Perfect theme for my 2025…
Love this theme!!! So excited to see the patterns and makes!
I'm so so so SO excited for this theme. Let's go girls!
Omg! Love this theme and the first pattern. Can't wait to make it
Love the theme, this look, and am overjoyed about embracing more dramatic garments!
Gorgeous!! This is gonna be FUN!!
OH. MY. GAWD……. I FREAKING LOVE LOVE THIS! I FELL OVER! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Love this dress!! This silhouette will suit me so well ❤️❤️❤️. I love looking at fit and flare on others but I can’t pull it off. Thanks Gertie!
Stunning xx
That dress! Love! So excited about this year’s theme, I am almost forgetting this horrible hangover 😆 Happy 2025, everyone!
This looks lovely and will be very versatile in different fabrics. Has anyone seen if it's got different cutting lines for the sleeveless version? The starlet dress didn't and it meant the sleeveless version was a bit gapey at the underarms and the shoulders were a bit too wide. An easy enough fix but I was surprised it wasn't on the pattern.
I misread your comment and thought it said it did have it. I just checked the pattern and it doesn’t. I’d usually just raise the under armsyce by 1cm to make something sleeveless.
I’m soooo excited about this year’s theme!
I'm so happy to see a wrapover design, just what I've been asking for !
Please tell me that the add on will be DRAMA sleeves for the robe!!
see the PS at the bottom of this post...
I love this theme !!
Love this return to old Hollywood glamour! This is exactly the sort of thing I adore and Gertie does it so well xx
I've literally saved a picture of a similar dress this morning thinking I'd like to make something like it.
WOWZERS!
Great. It's going to be a good sewingyear. 🎬
Wahoo! Love love love ALL the versions! 💖 Definitely want to make that robe… Mentally running through my drapey fabrics to see what would work for the short dress version also. 🤔 I’ve a few 3M lengths of viscose could work… 🤩 And hey! I’ll be able to move the hook & bar closure as I release the extra holiday lbs too! 😜
Love the Hollywood inspiration noted in the pattern too
Gorgeous!! Thank you 😊
Have you picked all the Hollywood icons for the whole year? I’d love to see a Katherine Hepburn inspired trouser outfit!
YAY!!!!!!!!
GORGEOUS!!!
Love this! Great way to start the new year. Now to find a excuse to make a sequined gown. 🤔
It’s amazing!!!
This is gorgeous!!! So excited for the robe too!
Love it!!!!
Wow, I love this! That robe is a MUST make!
Gorgeous! 🥰
Not the Millie and Elvira illustrations in the instructions 😭😍 What a fantastic start to 2025!!
Amazing! As a patron from the very beginning and supporter from even before that (I have the signed original Rita and Lamour patterns!), I am thrilled with this year's theme and the return to glamour!
Oh I am making that skirt and the robe! 😍
This is absolutely bloody lush. I am dribbling 🥰
You look stunning!
I can't wait for the robe. I have been searching for the perfect luxe robe😍
It’s so pretty!!! Can’t wait for the 15th too!!!
What a way to kick off the year! Absolutely STUNNING! 😍
That I swear I saw someone hosting Eurovision on something similar