Chinese Dress
This dress was made using Burda style sewing pattern 8438. I combined the instructions for making a long slitted skirt with the short sleeve option.
The fabric I used is polyester brocade, which has a beautiful sheen but is not as breathable as a silk brocade would be. The sleeves on the pattern are rather stiff, and would benefit from having a gusset added to enable greater range of arm motion. The finishing touch was adding black frog closures at the neck as a special accent.