I should be asleep

For this project, i first thought that i wanted to look at the style of the flappers girls from the 1920's and design a dress inspired by that, AFter i researched this and tried to design from it realised i did not find perticually inspiring. The dresses i designed were simple and boring. So i went back in my sketchbook to see if there was anything else that appealed to me. I had looked a little bit of draping form the 1930's and this looked quite intresting so i researched it further, and also looked at modern day draping. I found this a lot easier to design from, and also did some designing on the stand which i find alot easier then drawing my designs on a figure.

I used the stand to dreat style lines and traced them to creat my pattern and slashed the pattern so i then could pleat the peices, as i looked at pleating in my sketchbook. I also looked at the headdresses of the flappers girls, this was the only thing that really intrested me about them, with the the beading and sequins, so i wanted to incorperate this into my dress, so in the middle pannel it's going to have beading getting more and more sparse as the pannel gets bigger.

The pattern i created to go on my dress was inspired by a peice of art deco fabric which had circles all over it Slotted together in an intresting way. So from the pictures i had taken at RAF cosford, i found all the round shaped objects sucah as wheel and bolts and traced them off and slotted them together on another pice of paper. I then blocke in some of the area's to make it more intresting, and then played around with the sizing. In art deco the shapes tend to be and bold but my print worked better small. I decided to print the purple of the colour scheme on to the blue, i also tried black as this was my first thought to print in but the it looked to harsh.