Week 8

Monday

On Monday I focused on finishing the pattern for my dress because I knew that I would need to buy my fabrics on Tuesday and I wanted the pattern to be finished so I knew how much fabric to buy. Previously when I'd made a toile of the dress it had been in calico because I wasn't sure what fabric I wanted it to be made in. I chose jersey because it is associated with sporty/ casual clothes and although I'm making a dress which could be really dressy I want it to be more of a casual thrown on dress. So today I did another toile in jersey fabric so I could see how it will fit in a different fabric. I didn't need to make many changes, I just removed the darts and made it a bit smaller because the jersey will stretch to fit over the body.

Wednesday

On Tuesday I went fabric shopping so that on Wednesday I was able to start making my actual dress. The dress has a pintucked edging that goes all around the cut out and the arm hole and since the dress is quite simple to make I decided to get the pintucks done first as this would be time consuming. The pleats took me a lot longer than I expected them to take, I stayed after my lesson till about 7.30pm and then spent another couple of hours finishing them the next day. I found it hard to make the pintucks even as I've never done them so small and in such a large scale. Even though I spent a day and a half sewing the pintucks, I think it was time well spent because this is the most detailed part of the dress.

Thursday

On Thursday I spent a couple of hours finishing the pintucks and then I made the dress which only took about 2 hours to make.

Friday

On Friday I asked my friend Sara to wear the dress so I could see how it looked on an actual person. I really love how it turned out but there are some fit issues that I want to correct such as how it fits around the neck and the back. However, this also could be because it wasn't made to fit Sara. In my illustrations the dress wasn't meant to cover both breasts but I quite like how it fits on Sara as it could turn into an non-accidental nip-slip. 

When glimpsing at my book and then looking at my final piece, I don't think the two are obviously related. But if you properly look through my research you can see the link between the two in the colour and shape of the garment. I think this is good because I don't want people to immediately be able to tell what my inspirations were when looking at the garment, I want them to do their own research on it and really think about the ideas of female sexuality that I'm trying to show.