This week for deconstruct reconstruct I worked constantly with the stand and the shapes of used garments from charity shops to help me to create a final piece. Looking close at the shapes of the garments and the silhouettes that they create when layered or turn inside out and layered together. I really enjoyed just deconstructing the garments and taking them apart to see how they are made and the raw materials inside the garment. My favourite piece that I created was from working on the stand using a knit cardigan and a pair of jeans that I cut in half. By problem solving how to connect them together, I thought of the initial way of how we dress each day and do up our clothing every morning, developing that idea further and thinking why don’t I just do up these pieces using the buttons from the cardigan and the button holes on the jeans to then connect them together. This worked really successfully as I didn’t have to use pins to keep the two pieces together. Furthermore, the cardigan created a hood affect I really liked as I love the voluminous affect that it creates. As I am researching in the Victorian fashion a big part of the women’s fashion was sleeves with volume so transferring this idea onto another part of the body such as around the head. However one workshop that I could develop further would be working with the photocopying details and really exploring into pushing further of what the details actually are and really exploring there structure as part of the garment than just placing it anywhere on the garment.
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