Thursday, July 30, 2009
notched collar variation
This image is a front view of my variation on the class exercise (notched collar & lapel). The first thing I did was play with the proportions of the collar and lapel, lengthening the collar to the waist and making the lapel quite short and wide. Then I decided to slash and open the collar along the outer edge and add in small knife pleats too add another dimension. This was to see what kind of effect the pleats would have on the way the collar sits. With the actual collar I was happy with the result of the pleats as I think they make it sit up in an interesting way. However, I was a bit disappointed in the shorter lapel as I couldn't get it to sit quite right, it just kept poking out in a funny way. Even though it didn't quite work, I'm glad that I tried changing it completely so that I could learn if it would work or not.
notched collar
This is the first class exercise we did, drafting and making the notched collar with lapel. I drafted mine to fairly standard measurements, just trying to get the hang of it before doing anything creative. The hardest part for me was sewing together the collar and getting everything to line up. I followed the work order the whole way through, but it wasn't until I got to the end that I actually understood how it was going to work.
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