Dress Pattern

What pattern did you select and why? 

A dress pattern 

How will you alter the pattern?

I will make holes on dress patterns to show more body form. 

What materials and method of attachment will you use?

I will use muslin or ironed cotton. Maybe I will make both. Because I want to see the difference between hard and soft fabric. And I will sewing machine to connect each pattern pieces. 

How do these choices relate to your topic research?  What is the message behind your design?

My topic is about Gender--Women's Power. This why I want to use ironed cotton fabric to make the dress. I want hard structure to balance the feminine feeling of the dress. The reason I want to have holes on dress is that , if the dress made by hard fabric, it would not show the sexy body shape, it will be more about ideal garment form. So, I want the hole to show a little bit skin, and the sexy waist line to present women's body. But at the same time, it also has the structure of powerful shape. 

Cite one example of an article that you have research in seminar that has influenced your design.  Explain how the article informed your ideas.

Online article "Little black dress"

This article talks about the beauty of simpleness. In the centuries ago, layers and layers dress meant elegant and beauty. However, since Coco Chanel's amazing design--Little black dress, women were liberated from "tight" fashion generation. The simple dress can be defined as another style of beauty. Maybe a little design on the flat dress can change the whole feeling of the garment. This design concept is a big revolution of fashion industry, which affected the fashion trend a lot.

For this project, I wanted to make a very simple dress as well. Because of this article, I decided to just change a little part of a simple pattern dress. I wanted to show the sexy part of women, where I think supports to be the waist line till hip line, so I just cut a hole to show the skin of that part. Simple but sexy. This article gave me the inspiration of simpleness, which helped me to simplify my design ideas.