Monthly Archives: May 2011 - Page 4

Lining

Red Shirt LiningEscaping inessential seams

Luckily, the non-visibility of the lining allows to cut some corners.

Buying Fabrics (furs)

For being able to make best use of the last weeks before the festival, I made sure I gathered the required fabrics for making the remainig items on the Saturday outfits, comprising of: a long haired wine-colored faux fur (primary outfit, ground shoulder layer), a deep-red high-stretch velvety jersey (secondary outfit, blouse) and a luxuriously shining deep-black hairy velour (jacket), probably most resembling panther-hide.

Saturday's Shades

Drawing Patterns

body pattern (1), sleeve pattern (2), collar pattern (3)Slanted Jacket Prototype

The Slanted Jacket is basically a regular bolero-jacket with the fabric’s grain aligned with the sides and the functionality of the side-seams moved towards the front and back centers, which took a bit of prototyping before revealing a unique set of patterns that turned out looking quite unconventional indeed.

Monday’s Primary Outfit

Monday’s Primary Outfit assimilates a continuous chain of development progression in three deviant materials.

Monday's Primary Outfit

Flaunting the first of these resources; an enticing scarlet velour, is a wide majestic floor-length cape, augmented with a bolstering shoulder base supporting a high standing collar, whilst having divergent bonds swaying from it, showing off the fabric’s potency in sheer abundance.
Only in the highest contrast do we uncover the next substance in the obsidian leather gear underneath, consisting of a tight top, pants, straps, bracers, choker and a long layered skirt falling wide open through movement, nearly grasping the cape in span.
The outfit’s final featured matter incorporates the various armor pieces in brushed brass, consisting out of conceited cape-mounted spaulders, a robust mouth mask, glove-emerging claw fingers and a variety of significants in closures and clasps, making its transcendental return in crude aurulent rings enclosing tall horns, iconically reaching upwards.

Final Steps

Stitching velcro to underlying layers

Stitching velcro to underlying layers

Adding velcrostrip along frame edge

Adding velcrostrip along frame edge

 
Basting border onto frame

Basting border onto frame

Placing Removable Panel

Placing Removable Panel

 

Recollecting some of the last structural manoeuvres performed before finishing off this already burgeoning Mystery Project by stitching the decorative border tightly fixed onto the heavilly padded framework.

Page 4 of 7« Latest...23456...First »