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Fabric Spectacular

Paying a visit to the sojourning fabrics fair to browse the fall-season stock, scanning for interestingly new material ideas while making new acquaintances with some likewise-minded transients along the way.

Expo Antwerp

First Steps

Multi-directional pattern pieces

Multi-directional pattern pieces

Drawing border patterns

Drawing border patterns

 
Accordingly Oriented Pieces

Accordingly Oriented Pieces

Cutting Pieces along the Nap

Cutting Pieces along the Nap

 

Displaying the groundwork that went into creating the border-frame for my interchangeable picnic blanket, attentively drawn paying utmost attention to material structures and the velvet’s tricky shine orientation.

Selecting Buttons

I had often been looking into these buttons before but was always disenchanted by the brownish shine of the embedded stone, up until my latest trip when I, after careful inspection noticed there was a mat-grey variant enclosed within the same tube, which led to a somewhat more comprehensive selection process.

Selecting Buttons

Receiving Trim

Considering these freshly arrived yards of elastic ruffle I ordered in for further accentuating the seam-play on the undershirt were an online purchase, the appearant color-match is truly remarkable.

Red Ruffle Trim

Trois Quarts

A little less eccentric, but still positively goth-couture would be this concept of creating two cut-variants of a black-wool knee-long coat-design, portraying the corporate goth look into generally agreeable daywear.

Three Quarter Coat, rich winter variantThree Quarter Coat, embelished inter-season variant

The first, the warm winter version, is to be fashioned from a wealthily woven cashmere, tailored portraying a minimum in seams and embellishment, letting the material manifest its worth, leaving the coupe limited to: a by inset-pocket connected sideseam and frontal dart, transposed backseams and a high standing collar; with stitchings reserved for marking the fly-closures gracing the coat’s front, sleeves and backsplits.

The second, makes for a thinner inter-season variant, taking a visibly ribbed knit to be diversely oriented in cutting its disassociated pieces, using the material’s nap to provide a strong sense of direction; straight in separated side panels, biased in front and back, crossways in frontal box and collar; a slightly wasteful cut carrying a continuation of lines, bringing the coat’s worth to equal the value of its doppelganger.

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