Tailoring Studio semester 2, 2009

This is my research blog about the tailoring studio project ‘Tensions’

The following weeks I will try to use this blog for documenting my ideas and thoughts about its various aspects, including my technical exercises and the experimental variations of these.

The first week Class Exercise

was about how to draft and to sew a Tailoring Jacket with a notched collar.

On the first picture you can see the pattern instructions.

The second picture shows you a part of my self-made pattern (left side the original - right side the variation).

On these two pictures you can see my first own produced half toile which is more a good try than a good example for a notched Collar. It was quite difficult for me to find out how it goes with the tricky corners and these things.

To follow all Instructions the right way was not easy for me cause I had to think about too many different things at the same time.

Learning and understanding everything in an other language was a big challenge for me and I am very happy that whenever my course mates had time they helped me to cope with it.

On the left you can see my original
and on the right side the variation of it.

I've made the collar a little bit wider, I 've also dropped the first button a little bit more down and I changed the darts on the back to a sort of a princes line.