{"id":77109,"date":"2021-05-10T07:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=77109"},"modified":"2021-05-07T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T02:41:15","slug":"marais-knit-dress-top-tester-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2021\/05\/marais-knit-dress-top-tester-round-up.html","title":{"rendered":"marais knit dress + top tester round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love all the new patterns, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/shop\/marais-knit-dress-top-sewing-pattern.html\">Marais Knit Dress + Top<\/a> is probably my favorite. I sewed up a muslin and was ecstatic to see that the seamlines were in all the right places. It&#8217;s a very flattering and elevated style that looks good on all shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Liesl <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2021\/05\/introducing-the-marais-knit-dress-top.html\">introduced the pattern<\/a> last week and today we&#8217;re showing you some tester photos..<\/p>\n<p>So have a look and see what you think!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Beth&#8217;s Marais Top:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-beth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77111 size-large\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-beth-760x509.jpg\" alt=\"Tester round-up of the Marais Knit Dress + Top.\" width=\"760\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-beth-760x509.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-beth-500x335.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-beth-768x514.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-beth-1200x649.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeanne&#8217;s Marais Dress:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-jeanne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77113 size-large\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-jeanne-760x994.jpg\" alt=\"Tester round-up of the Marais Knit Dress + Top.\" width=\"760\" height=\"994\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-jeanne-760x994.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-jeanne-500x654.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-jeanne-768x1004.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-jeanne-1175x1536.jpg 1175w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-jeanne-1200x649.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melani&#8217;s Marais Dress:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-melani.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77114 size-large\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-melani-760x1046.jpg\" alt=\"Tester round-up of the Marais Knit Dress + Top.\" width=\"760\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-melani-760x1046.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-melani-500x688.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-melani-768x1057.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-melani-1116x1536.jpg 1116w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-melani-1200x649.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and Sarah&#8217;s Marais Top:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-Sarah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77115 size-large\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-Sarah-760x509.jpg\" alt=\"Tester round-up of the Marais Knit Dress + Top.\" width=\"760\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-Sarah-760x509.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-Sarah-500x335.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-Sarah-768x514.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-Sarah-1200x649.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liesl will be sharing fabric and styling ideas for this pattern in a few days, so stay tuned. Is there a Marais in your future? Don&#8217;t forget to share it with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marais Knit Dress + Top is sure to be a summer favorite. See what our testers made of it and get inspired to sew up your own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6023,"featured_media":77112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[20843],"class_list":["post-77109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-marais"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/marais-tester-hero.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-k3H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76918,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2021\/05\/introducing-the-marais-knit-dress-top.html","url_meta":{"origin":77109,"position":0},"title":"introducing the marais knit dress + top","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"May 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Introducing the first of our three new patterns for spring 2021. 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