Pattern and Instructions: The Sabrina Dress
What could be more iconic than a little black dress?
The Sabrina Dress celebrates the classic simplicity of Audrey Hepburn’s style (in movies like Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s) with a fully-lined boatneck bodice, French darts, three sleeve options, and a pleated pencil skirt in two lengths.
Plus, the bodice and skirt are both interchangeable with the other patterns in Charm’s Stanwyck series, like the Aurora Bodice, Lucille Trousers, and Stanwyck Skirts.
This dress would be stunning as a long gown in silk or sateen, but it’s also a perfectly work-appropriate number in wool crepe or suiting.
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 #sabrinadress and #charmpatterns!
xoxo,
Gertie
P.S. If you’re looking to recreate a Breakfast at Tiffany’s fantasy, stay tuned for our pattern release on the 15th for Glamour Circle+ patrons!
Comments (70)
Is there a video for this one?
Are these sleeves interchangeable with any other patterns?
OMG yes!! I love Sabrina! ❤️
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Pleeeease let it be the top part of the dress with the back neck line. That would be really special.
Sabrina is one of my favorite movies of all time! Loveit can hardly wait to try this dress.
Lovely pattern - can't wait to make it ! And thank you for including the shorten/lengthen line on the bodice pattern pieces. I was just asking myself how to do a length adjustment on French-darted bodices, and this makes it so much easier !
THANK YOU! This is the dress of my dreams... <3
I have already made a Breakfast at Tiffany's dress, the short black one with fringe using another Gertie book pattern, however seeing as Audrey wore so many boat neck dresses, we can create so many of her looks with this bodice. Also will look great with a circle skirt.
Love this so much, pattern is in for printing! Super excited to make this!
I love the bust line on this!
Yeeees!!
Lovely!
Ahhhhh!! And I already have a pattern for a heart beret AND red wool! After a long January, yall are really making a girl smile 😊
I think I will stick with Lady Mary's (Downton Abbey) comment when she saw that dress at the fashion show. "Yummy!"
*Excited screeching* That’s it, that’s the comment.
😍😍😍 it’s everything I was hoping for! I was LITERALLY in the fabric store holding my phone and refreshing Patreon this morning waiting for the release so I could buy the fabric and get started right away! 😂 This is sure to become a wardrobe staple. Thank you Gertie!
I need that heart beret 😍
I LOVE the Breakfast at Tiffanys version and Suzys hair in the LBD shots are GORGEOUS!! Also i agree we need details on the hat...NOW!!!
omg Gertie what are you doing to me! I Love love love it x
Wonderful ♥️♥️♥️♥️ my very favorite movie of all times!
Ok so details on the hat please?! ❤️❤️
In love!!! This is amazing! That heart version on Gertie is swoon worthy. I’m so excited to try this out. I love this skirt too. The pleats on the skirt are giving me the confidence to try a pencil skirt as a plus sized woman with a big belly who typically avoids slim skirts; I think the way this one is designed/drapes could help me conquer that fear! Thank you Gertie and team Charm! 💕
You should tryout the Dandridge skirt from a few years ago, it's one of my faves ❤️
SO EXCITED
I am so excited to make this.. I have always wanted to make a dress like this!!! so so excited...
Susie on fire!!!!!!!
Perfection
YES YES YES! I have been planning a LBD and this one is perfection.
Literally sobbing. This has been a dream dress for me for I don't even know how long.
ok, i was just wanting to make a fifties pencil skirt but wasn’t sure which pattern to try because i am a 🍐 and this is exactly what i was envisioning. also i’ve been wanting a more open neckline, so that is also perfect. the entire look is divine, classic, chic, and will work in so many fabrics! also thinking the brooklyn would be so cute with this. thank you for another excellent pattern! and a stanwyck series?! i’m over the moon [river]!
ps i made that ❤️ beret and do the same thing with similar pins and wear it every february! 💘 happy hearts month everyone!
Love it. This is just perfect, thank you!
YES!! Gertie and the team have done it AGAIN!!
Finally we have a lovely boat neck and I am already seeing the 15 expansion in the final picture 🙃❤️
I love it :-) can't wait to sew it
Help! I’ve fallen over! YES! I was just looking for a classic pattern exactly like this last night! Look no more! ❤️❤️❤️❤️💣💣
Omg omg omg! This is sooooo good!
https://www.screenchic.com/post/story-of-a-dress-sabrina
Thanks for that!
Love it! 💖 I wore my hacked (with long sleeves) boatneck Joan top yesterday and was thinking I need more things with this neckline, and voila! Love the French dart and tummy friendly skirt pleats. 😉
OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! I LOVE THIS! I have to make it!
The dress I have longed for!!! Thank you!! French darts and all! 💞🔥💗😍
SHUT UP. This is the most beautiful perfect LBD. I love a boatneck holy moly
This is beautiful! 🥰
Oh my goodness!! The long black breakfast at Tiffany made me swoon 🫠
Of course! And I'm super happy if another to add to the Stawyck series!
Oh and also I think we all need some merch with the Gertie director chair with Elvira and Millie on it, riiiight? Come on! ❤️
Yes yes and yes
Y'all are on fire with the theme this year! Can't wait to make this!
YAY!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!
Now this is very useful for me!
YES!!! I thought of this when I saw the hint. I can’t wait to make it!💜💜💜
Going to print this today 😍😍
I am starting on this TODAY!! I love it!
THE WAY I LITERALLY GASPED AND SAID "SHUT UP" WHEN THE NOTIFICATION DROPPED 😍😍😍😍 I've been hoping for a boatneck bodice!
Same here...well said!!
French darts AND boatneck! Two of my favorite features in a dress.
This is the dress that made me fall in love with vintage fashion. I was 14 years old and I had just learned Audrey Hepburn was in movies other than my mom's VHS copy of "My Fair Lady." This dress began a decades long interest for me; I have seen every Audrey Hepburn film and collected books about her as a teenager. This dress remains my favorite outfit from all of the films. I am beyond excited.
Are we getting a heart-shaped beret pattern for Valentine’s Day? Please?
Could be this one https://www.tuppencehapenny.com/blog/heart-shaped-beret-tutorial
Super excited! Thank you. 😍
This is so exciting! It’s such a beautiful pattern!
So perfect
💕💖💕YES! Perfect!
Ahhhhhh!!! I needed a boatneck pattern for woven fabric. This is so perfect! 😍
Omfggggggg
Classic and chic. ❤️
😍😍😍😍
I literally said the F word when I saw the full length version - I am HERE FOR THIS!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍