This has great lines and great shape and does exactly what I love. But here’s
the thing. There is only one way to get into this woven top, and that’s over the head. That means that if the waist is nipped in, then the shoulders have to get past the waist. That’s a toughie to give shape to the top and yet get past the shoulders - in a woven. In a knit - it’s a cinch, which means I can nip in the waist a little more. This problem with this top is probably so undetected that my bet is that it’s returned a lot, except for those women who are
thinner than a rail and have very little shape or anything on their bones and get it a size larger to fit their bony shoulders, which is about 3% of this universe!
But here’s the question...you have this stretchy knit that droops a little, and putting that into a knit means there could be massive unnecessary ruffling around the edges of the seams you don’t want. Then, you don't have the stiffness of the ruffle that you do want. So, how do you insert that to make it look right? You interface the ruffle and the facing with woven interfacing (I like a bondable woven here), and poof, the part that needs body has it,
while the part that needs to stretch (around the waist and body area) can stretch and then you end up with a really cool outfit with the stability where you specifically want it.
Here's a short video on how I did this.
