Step by step towards my final garment.

 

This is my original moodboard of which I decided my decade, and looked more into the theme and aspects of it. Here I have included fabrics and colours that I have taken from my images, from my research. I found patterns such as lace and polka dots. Then I have chosen colours ranging from the Hollywood glamour red to the modest colours such as burgondys and creams and browns. With my colour palette I was able to include these colours when I started my sampling. I like this moodboard as I have used to contradicting themes; Hollywood glamour and Make do and mend, during the 1930s-40s and made them work. As for an improvement I need to look at more shapes and less garments for my moodboard to inspire my samples more.

This is a my style board I looked at the 'make do and mend' side of women during the 1930s-1940s. I refined my research and looked at make do and mend garments that occured throughout 1930s and 40s. Here I have looked at more patterns and embelishment that I planned to use on my final garment. Such as the bow and the bottoned up military inspired dress and skirt. I like this style board as I was able to refine my theme more and look at colours and fabrics and patters and look at what was commonly used bows and feathers on brouches such as ostrich and peacock. I really think it is appropriate and demonstrates the make do and mend theme as well as Hollywood glamour.

 As for an improvement, I need to look at one theme maybe and concentrate on one more to acheive the perfect look and demonstration of my chosen decade.

These are samples that I have taken from my mood board and style board. For example the cream gathered fabric and pleat I intend to include within my final garment. The hand sewn buttons (embelishment) I planned to also include in my final garment as buttons during ww2 were a common embelihsment, and mainly military inspired with the one button at the top or the flowing left handed button lining. The pocket sample was an idea I was torn whether to include this in my final garment as I thought it would be to crowded. I wanted to achieve the simple look as women during the war, threw away all the glits and glam and used simple pearls and modest clothes. I like my samples as they demonstrate techniques that were used during this decade. However my pocket was poorly machine embroided as the fabric I used stretched easily and was hard to work with. If I was to do this again I would use less embelishment and more techniques such as pleats or gathering as they worked well.

These are my flat illustrations. For this I referred to my mood board and style board alot for inspiration. I decided to keep the same striped nautical pattern for each dress as it reminded me of a more pratical age for women. I really wanted to show how women during the 30s-40s designed their clothes,(mainly military inspired). The striped nautical pattern also reminded me of the sailor look that came to light during the 1930s. I like my flat illustrations as they are simple and show techniques that I have included in my samples. Also I have kept with my theme and not gone off track and added appropriate embelishment. For an improvement I would not use pockets on a striped dress as it is hard to see and looks to crowded.

This is my final design garment on a model drawing. I have also included samples that fit appropriatley with my outfit. For my samples I used techniques such as the bow, also I created a sample which I was going to include on my final garment. For my samples I used fabric paint as my mediums. My final garment design on my model, I used line and curve techniques and shading to create this. I like my final garment deisgn as it demonstrates 1930s-40s techniques and colours and patterns. For an improvement I would probably not modernise my chosen decade.

This is my final garment photoshoot images. I have also included more samples alongside of them. For my final garment I used a box pleat for the skirt. I also included a bow which i bonder webbed and then hand sewn on to the garment. I hand sewn and gathered the frilled sleeves and attached them myself by hand sewing them on. Then I added a simple sailors button for embelishment.