Construction of Final Garment

    This is what I have been waiting for within these past 2 weeks! It has finally come to the time where I can start to make my final piece and finally finish something I have been working hard for. I have really enjoyed making this piece in particular due to the materials I have chosen to work with. As regards to doing textiles, I mainly focused on pleats, folds and tucks within this garment, which keeps it simple yet adds a lot of perspective due to the different textures and layering of the materials. In addition, this garment was really fun to make because none of my actual textiles work had to be perfect apart from the folds due to that being on the top half and being more open and obvious than the rest, but it added a very nice, simple texture to the top of the garment. Whereas, the bottom half was much more deconstructed and frayed, again relating to the theme.

    Also, I had a rather last minute idea to add slight touches of denim to the top front drape and also on the sides by the arms. This proved to be not only affective but also very relatable to my original starting off work, considering that I only really focused on denim,  hence I used it as a simple highlight on the piece. Not to mention, because I was already using a dark navy, it seemed to bond rather well together without looking tacky or not suitable. Below are images I took whilst making the garment to show how I processed through making my final piece.

Shredding Process                                                                                                    Drape Process

Tucking/Layering Process

Draping/Hanging Process                                                                     The Additional Denim Highlights









    Overall, making this garment didn't really have many difficulties apart from the fact that the sowing machine didn't really like working with such heavy, thick materials. Despite this, it still managed to all attach together. Plus, the navy dressing gown didn't even need sowing together considering that it could hang, drape, fold and manipulate all by itself, which definitely proved to work effectively. Furthermore, there were some more things which I could have worked on or perhaps paid more attention to, for example the pleated folds on the top could have been much more down to scale, but considering towels aren't actually that big in general.

    On top of this, I had to do as much as I could do without running out of fabric, which is why I had to add a halter neck to the top of the draped front due to it not being able to reach around the mannequins neck. Even though this was an extra add on, it really did make my garment look much more fuller as a garment rather than it literally looking as if I had just chopped it up and randomly stuck pieces together because I think there are only few occasions where that can be pulled off successfully without it looking too ridiculous (apart from Moschino, they're always doing things like that!) Hence, this final project outcome has probably been the most successful considering how much easier I found it to made, not saying that it was easy, but knowing the techniques and processes to which I knew that I had to use, it made the job so much quicker than it could have been!