A tight-fitting blouse contrived from leftover stretch-silk with quality lining forming the back, augmented as an individual piece while created as a supportive layer under the Gray Blouse in order to prevent skintone diffusion in single-layer areas.
What started from a simple sketch in one of this blog’s first posts, grew to an enchanting project exhibiting the finest silk flowing generously from layered collar into matching cuffs while graciously taking on the shape of the wearer in an uniquely tailored bodice.
Proceedings: sketch – sleeve pattern – collar pattern – fabric – cuff – bodice – undershirt – modeled
The original black shirt was my first experiment at elaborate shirt-making and was based upon a regular box-placket shirt-body with side-insets providing a perfectly tailored fit. The in the shoulder and wrist-seams gathered sleeves are tied down in mid-biceps with a fixated ribbon, supplying a slight puffed effect, and are elongated from the wrist onwards by bias-tape trimmed ruffles.
Most notable is perhaps the accompanying circle-cut jabot, by accordio-folds fixated within a strap re-placeable under a secluded layer in the shirt’s collar, and which is like the ruffles, also finished by matching black satin bias-tape.
A bias-cut bolero-jacket, exhibiting a rounded coupe devoid of side-seams, literally constructed around its own prototype, giving the fabrication that weighty pelt-like firmness, finished with inset coil-zips backing front and mid-sleeve closures.
Proceedings: sketch – patterns – prototype – fabric – facing – lining
A dainty little artwork, fashioned for sharpening up the slightly more monotonous of outfits.
Proceedings: relevance
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