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DECORATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR GARMENT ENHANCEMENT
3rd year
FINAL PROJECT
In this project, students were required to decorate one of their own-made garments. I chose the french-dart striped dress I've made in 1st year.
At first, I was confused about what to add - between multiple deadlines that are all in finals week, so that I searched for some waste fabrics and found my white lace. This lace has a floral pattern.
The first thing I did is adding lace to the bottom and exchange the sleeve part. Forget about the random pleats above (which I added just hours before submission 😅), adding lace was the first that crossed my mind before I was confused again about what to do next.
Looking at the lace, I was thinking about cutting the flowers out from the pattern and attach them onto the lace surface. This idea was inspired by Dior's 3D flower dress which was used for a perfume campaign back then in 1949. The flower ornaments are attached one by one to the main fabric by hand stitch.
The Dior Dress
Okay, I know it is way too different from the Dior dress. I finally managed to cut the flowers out from the lace pattern. There are three different flowers, one main flower and two with a smaller size. Before attaching them to the lace surface, I hand-sewn the center part so they look like 3D flowers. I attached them one by one by matching the flowers on the surface, then added three white Delica beads. Here how it looks like.
Apart from the sleeves, I also added lace surfaces on the neck part with flowers attached as well. On the bigger flowers, I added beads as the pistils. I also attached some small flowers outside the surface, but still around the area.
Well, I felt it looks like children wear. I knew I can do much better than this, yet deadlines are near and there are some problems with the other projects. Here is the final look. (Yes, this is me with tired face finishing one more final project 😭)
If you are curious about the project score, well, it was not bad and still got an A though (which I cannot believe at first but to be grateful for). Apart from this project, I will surely decorate my own clothes if I am bored with them. Decorating old garments is one of the sure things to more sustainable fashion life with style.
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