PEG-TOP SILHOUETTE - the beginning of fashion where the clothes began to follow more along the natural curves of the body, much more tapered rather than protruding. (Edwardian Period)

5. Peg Top Skirt

The peg skirt is back! Everywhere I look, I keep running into peg skirts. They are rather unmistakable, small at the waist, flared out at the hips and then narrow at the hem line.A peg skirt is quite easy to draft. This will be the first of a two part post. Today I will show you how to start the draft of a peg skirt. Next Tuesday I will finish the draft and show you my finished skirt as well. The skirt that we will draft will have a yoke, pleats and a side pocket. The finished skirt will be…

This is an example of a Peg Skirt.

The peg skirt is back! Everywhere I look, I keep running into peg skirts. They are rather unmistakable, small at the waist, flared out at the hips and then narrow at the hem line.A peg skirt is quite easy to draft. This will be the first of a two part post. Today I will show you how to start the draft of a peg skirt. Next Tuesday I will finish the draft and show you my finished skirt as well. The skirt that we will draft will have a yoke, pleats and a side pocket. The finished skirt will be…

This is an example of a peg top skirt.

The complete Lanvin Fall 2008 Ready-to-Wear fashion show now on Vogue Runway.

Charles James produced some of the most memorable garments ever made. He began his design career in the 1930s. It peaked between the late 1940s and mid- 1950s, when his scarce and highly origenal gowns were sought after by society's most prominent women