Balenciaga

During the toile presentation, Rose raised the issue of making the armhole on the blouse the same shape as on the waist coat so when worn together, there isn't any awkward looking armhole seam at the top of the shoulder peeking through the waistcoat.

The most problematic area of the blouse has been the shoulder and armhole. The front part of the shoulder was always shorter and did not reach the shoulder seam.

During lesson, Sian suggested for me to make the back darts on the second layer panel into seam lines so the dart endings are not uneven. As I pinned in the lines, I realised there would be too many panels on one dress if the darts were made into seamlines and so I decided to stay with the original darts.

Possible fabrics

For fabrics, I'm mainly concentrating on cottons and/or wools. The colours match well with my colour board and I thought about using a combination of differend fabrics to create the illusional cubist look.

Shorts and Trousers

These are some of my better pages for shorts and trousers. I've still tried to maintain the pattern diagram lines in the designs and the asymetric look.

Further research with pattern diagrams

I came across a book during my research which had patterns for the Tudor costumes. I extracted those and would like to used the patterns shapes to create designs, layering different patterns shapes together like Shelly Fox to give a cubost illusion.