The Line Up

The Final Garments

toiles

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.

Designs incorporating the pattern diagram lines.

Research and design for shirts and jackets

Initial design ideas

These are some pages of my very first ideas about silhouette and shape. I have tried to maintain both cubist shapes and Tudor essence.

The designs above has more detail and I quite like these ideas for their overall shape, which can be developed from.

Initial research pages

These 3 initial research pages focuses mainly in connecting the shapes found in Tudor costume with shapes in Cubism. In picking out and highlighting the shapes, I will incorporate them in my designs.

During a trip to the Design Museum, I found shapes on exhibited objects that relate to my project and I've used it to link in with the Tudor aspect. The shapes are minimalist and abstract and could also be used to create silhouettes.

In these 2 research pages, I have tried to convey cubism by cutting up and re-arranging the Tudor images in an abstract, cubist way. Also, through a book I have called "Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge"- Bradley Quinn, I have found a designer, Shelly Fox, who created the two white dresses above, which seem very cubist and relevent to my research. I particularly like how the same pattern piece drape many times over one side of the dress and how collar lines and pockets are at unusual places.

Mood Board and Colour Board

In this project, I aim to create designs that use abstract shapes found in Tudor period costume and Cubism. I would like to use Cubism to break up the regularity and symmetry of Tudor designs and design a collection with an abstract feel to it.
As the collection in for autumn/winter, the colours are naturally quite dense. The colours are mainly smokey blue, khaki greens with light yellowish beige to diffuse a dark palette.