Bow Dress

Within this lesson I was able to develop a knowledge for pattern cutting. We were asked to create a top working around the word ‘twisted’ where we were given templates at which we had to firstly create pattern cutting in paper then interpret this in fabric as well. It really made my understand fabric and the importance of understanding how the fabric is weaved,  as this can make an entire different outcome to what you may have wanted to achieve. It was fascinating to realize the amount of shapes, and detail that go into making a garment. Here is an image of what we were aiming towards.

Here are the directions on tying the bow.

The top can be worn like so and additionally a bow style top can be achieved by tying the fabric at the front.

Below is an image of our early stages where we were trying to get all our templates onto paper. 

This is a template of the back of the dress.

Here I have illustrated out paper version of the dress, which works very different effect to the fabric due to the fact paper is a very stiff material to work with, however it's nice to be able to see all the shapes combined to make quite a sculptural piece.

Once we had achieved our pattern cutting and placed all the pieces together it was very rewarding, to add to this I was able to get visual ideas as to how the garment could be developed upon.