Bespoke 'Be spoken for'

Advanced skills project. Produce a bespoke historical and contemporary bodice based on a fashion plate from a specific era.

1847

• Padding out the stand for a specific person and their measurements. 
• Creating a Crinoline or bustle appropriate for the era.

• Creating darts, seams and panels.

• Various fittings and alterations.

• Fittings for the contemporary bodice. Hidden internal corset inserted. 

•  Final internal corset material -cotton drill. 

• Creating piped bias binding to put in-between seams on the historical garment. 

• First fitting of the historical jacket. 

• First fitting of the contemporary bodice.

• Inserting the lining and facing for the Contemporary garment. 

Final Garments

Historical
Contemporary