Even on this form, I need to adjust the fit!
I’ve been remiss on keeping up with my Dress Form Double. Phyllis and I got hers all padded out and she’s off to the races with it, but I have been a slacker. I still needed to do the base form cover. My dress form is a Roxy size 10. In theory, it should map to the Vogue size 14 fitting shell. But guess what? Even dress forms have fitting issues! You can see the changes I need to make to the shell to make it fit the form. Once I have the seams/darts/pinches all sewn out, I’ll cut down the seam allowances. Hopefully Phyllis can come up this weekend and we can pad it out using our oh-so-scientific method. You know, the “put some padding on, look at the real person, eyeball more padding, repeat” method.
Side view. The SAs are huge, but I’ll cut them back before padding.
Earlier this week, I was in Boston for some meetings, and I walked through the Copley Place mall, where they were hosting an installation of fashion designs from students at MassArt. They were gorgeous! The most memorable pieces were from non-traditional materials. I can tell you – these kids put the yabos on recent seasons of Project Runway to shame. There is genuine talent and incredible creativity! So here you go- some pretty for your day.
A jacket made of upholstery fabric
Several different looks
Eveningwear looks
Survey says… Inspired by McQueen!
Beautiful bound buttonholes. You can see that even design students have trouble with turn-of-the-cloth.
Now for the cool stuff…
Non-Traditional Materials display
This dress was made from guitar picks
This one was made from tea-dyed teabags.
This dress was made from silk chiffon and paperclips!
While this one was made of birch bark. And it was FABULOUS!
The installation runs through September 27. You can see information about it at MassArt’s Website.
I found all these outfits to be so inspiring! Now I just need to get the dress form double done so I can get going on my fall wardrobe.
Happy sewing!
WOW! Thanks for posting those beautiful creations from non-traditional materials!
They are very inspiring. Isn’t it nice that it was in a mall and you could photograph as much as you wanted?!!
Thanks for posting those pictures! I saw the article in the Globe this morning and was impressed. Copley Place is very close to work, I may have to run an errand there….
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing these.
The teal jacket with the peplum is beautiful even with the turn-of -cloth difficulties. Thanks for sharing for those of us who do not have easy access to big cities and their delights.
Oh wow, those are inspiring garments. It would be so neat to see them in person.
I want to go into Boston to try on some Fluevogs – I’ll check this out!
Thank you for sharing those pics. Very inspirational. In another life, I’d like to at least audit some of those classes!
The alternative materials dresses are so inspiring.
That was very cool! Thanks for taking photos and sharing this with us all. I really like the chiffon and paperclips dress.
Ah, to be a student again….as an undergrad from SAIC my fashion studies were conceptually based and we did a lot of non-traditional fashion similar to the photos. They are very inspiring and make me long for the days when my only job was to create my own vision.