4th Week Class Exercise (Set in Sleeve & Shoulder Pad)

This Week we learned, how to attach a Set In Sleeve and the Shoulderpad.

On these Pictures you can see my self-sewed Set-In Sleeve.
On the first picture you can also see, that the sleeve makes a little curve to the front, which imitates the natural shape of an arm, course even when the arms falling straight down, they are doing a little curve to the front.

The first pic is without the shoulderpad. You can see how softer the Sleeve falls included the shoulderpad like in the following pictures.









On these pictures you can also see, how the Shoulder pad is attached to the main fabric, also with a kind of herringbone stitches.













This last Image shows Mick by attaching the shoulder pad to the Sleeve and the Shoulder.







And every time I am just supposed to think again " OH my Gosh how much work belongs to such a Jacket!!! "




The typically definition of a shoulder pad:

Shoulder pads are a type of fabric-covered padding used in men's and women's clothing to give the wearer the illusion of having broader, and less sloping shoulders.

In men's styles, shoulder pads are often used in suits, jackets and overcoats, usually sewn at the top of the shoulder and fastened between the lining and the outer fabric layer.

In women's clothing, their inclusion depends on the fashions of the day. Their use is particularly associated with clothing of the early 1940s and the 1980s.

Photograph of Elsa Schiaparelli wearing a "Napoleon" hat and shocking pink jacket of her own design

I am also interested, to use the Shoulder pads for my finally design - in a way of oversizing them.