Deconstructing a blazer (and dressing a chair!) - Lesson 2 - 1.11.2011

For the next part of this lesson we further deconstructed our jackets, but keeping them in fairly big pieces (flat sleeve, fronts and whole back) and used them to tailor a dress for a chair. This is my first attempt......

Taking the dress off the chair I then draped on the stand creating an interesting silhouette.............

I wanted to create something a little more put together and so for my second attempt, created a really tailored and symmetrical dress for the chair.

I was really pleased with this structure on the stand and felt it was something I could work better with in design development.

Turning it around worked even better...... And then nipping it in at the waist I think then created a jacket shape almost ready to wear!!

My final idea was to keep the shape as is and just drape on front of body to create a dress silhouette. This is my favourite and I really like the lines on the bust as well as the curving lines of the skirt.