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Illustrative Work

Completed the first of my 10 initial Designs! Using Water colours as my base medium and then using Fineliner over the top to define the lines.

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Dye experimentations

As part of my experimentations and building up sample work today I did some dye experimentations. I worked with hand dyes that you mix together with warm water and salt, I used 3 colours purple, blue and red as they are the main jewel colours that I wanted to experiment with apart from green, but I couldn’t find any of that colour in the haberdashery.

I used a variety of fabrics to test how the dye reacts to the different properties in them and I have started trying to merge the colours togther as gradients.

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Fashion Film

A Man Called Bones

FAS009 New Project

My chosen concept will come from this video called ‘A Man Called Bones’ directed by  Nathaniel Brown.

It is a fusion of fashion, music and dance. It tells a story about Bones showing the rebel, cowboy atire, in terms going against what is the norm in society.

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My first edited fashion photography with my shirt!

I did my model’s makeup as a variety of colours across the middle of her face as if to show her personality leaking from her eyes trying to hide away the characters mental problems. I used contrasting colours at a parallel to create the concept of how different the mind can be be at the same time running parallel.

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Shirt near completion!

Within today’s session I got my shirt near completion. I worked upon fitting in the sleeves and then I did the button holes to which I had help with by one of the Sewing Technicians. All I need to do now is just hand sew the buttons on to my shirt making sure that they align precisely with the button holes.

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Making

A few photographs of my final shirt in progress! I had a ew issues with putting in the placet for my concealed shirt opening but overlocking it the wrong way round, i overcame this problem by carfefully unpicking the stitches and going over it agin but this time the right way round leaving as little as possible to be trimmed off to avoid warping the dimensions of my shirt. From what I have got done today, I feel that within the next workshop session I have I will have finished the shirt as all I need to do is attatch the cuffs, sleeves and do the button holes.

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A few progress photographs of my shirt in the making. Within today’s session I cut out all my pattern pieces, making sure to adjust the front bodice to have the extra seam allowance. I also interfaces my collar stand, collar fall, cuff and concealed front piece, I found using the heat press was quite easy but I had to make sure that the calico I was using to cover my fabric was clean and free of any glue to prevent it from damdging my fabric. I’ve pressed all my pleats for my back piece, which was a much speedier process from when I made my toile as I knew how to do it more time effeciant.

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Finished my toile today!! I feel likw making my toile went really well, the only ammendment i am going to have to make is adding that extra seam allowance to the front bodices down the center front line. I’m now ready to go out to the fabric shops and get all my material for my final production.

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Beginning the Fashion Shirt Essay!!! I have finally started working upon my essay. I have decided to base my essay around the lecture on ‘Fashion And Subcultures’. I will be looking into have the subcultures of the 1980′s-2000′s made an impact on the classic shirt. So far i have researched into the New Romanticism subculture and found that within that subculture that shirts were in fashion to have frills and be flouncey, I looked at Vivienne Westwood’s Pirate Collection and seen how the shirt has integrated in some way towards her collection. I also found how the music scene adopted the fashion to become in trend, bands such as Adam The Ants have this aesthetic about them although they do not have any direct connection to this type of fashion. Overall I have found the New Romanticism era was about self expressionism, tracing and recycling early English fashion, in order to be noticed as a selective group.

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The beginning of the making of my shirt toile design! So far i have been concentrating on pressing the pleats into my calico, and sewing the front of the shirt. I have found that i didn’t put seam allowance onto my button stand, as this is my toile i will leave it out but will adapt my paper pattern to put on that seam allowance for when i make the final outcome.

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Toile Shirt Progress

Today I began working upon my toile, I have found that I have not put enough seam allowance on the one side of my button allowance. From finding this I have decided that I will add seam allowance to my pattern pieces but keep it as it is on my toile. This shows the sewing practice and pattern cutting developments within my project. I feel the reason why this has happened is because I have done a concealed front opening which is my first trail that I have ever done of this particular opening. I will note this down as a reference point.

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My Garment Specification sheet. I have done this sheet to help me and my lecturers understand my design better in order to create my pattern pieces. I have decided when making my pattern pieces with the pleats i am going to try 2 different sizes of pleat depths in paper to see which will best suit my design.

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My Pattern cutting research research on Patch Pockets. I have included a range of areas where the patch pocket can be located and the different uses that it would have. For example a patch pocket located on the bust area of  a T-shirt would more be as a style pocket not to be used as it would drape the material down causing a mishape in the neckline. Whereas patch pockets on the lower torso are more for utitlity instead of stylised decoration.

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My collar research from Pattern cutting for this week! I looked at all the types of collar we cut in last weeks patterns session to gain knowledge on what each collar is aimed at design wise and the aesthetics of eah one so that ican easily identify them. I used a mixture of sources including the internet, clothing of my own and images from the latest Vogue issue.

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My final Mood board edit for my Shirt project. I have used an ‘explosion’ style of aesthetic with images from artists, shots and qoutes from the movie ‘Perks of being a wallflower’. My overall concept title is Parallel lines which then delves into how mental illnesses can run alongside people’s lives... in some respects parallel to those who don’t have metal illnesses.

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Design Work is finally Complete! Now onto the design boards for chosing which design I want to construct!!

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Fabric Sourcing Trip:

Within Design workshop today our group went on a fabric sourcing trip around Birmingham, Digbeth area to collate samples for our shirt that we will be making. From this trip I gathered a few samples of Autumnal colours in the Material PolyCotton. I chose Polycotton because I will be encorporating pleats within my shirt and using a cotton with a synthetic within it will help keep the pleats in place.