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Tag: dresses

  • Contemporary Dress

    A project taking an existing dress to 3D pattern and pattern. The dress has multiple narrow panels, but is really created as a single pattern piece (front and back) because at the hem the panel strips are connected and the excess fabric forms a turned back ruffle. The original was denim and sewn with raw edges exposed along each panel, and also at the faced edge along neck and arms.

    Original dress, size 8. Measured, recreated and POMs verified.
    Graded to size 16. Measurements and fit checked.
    Dress pattern cutting layout. The front panel needs to fit on a single width of fabric, but grading is still possible without splitting up the design.
    Contemporary dress with unusual panel construction. Recreated as pattern and 3D model.
    Line drawing

    Construction detail of the original. Interior is a clean finish (left side of image), Exterior has exposed raw hems. One goal is to better illustrate this effect in renders.
    Bubble hem construction (interior). Hem is tacked to dress through all layers at each gore.
    Raw edges can be approximated in render, which gets the concept across but isn’t very realistic. Same design with simple seaming, and large scale print.