Very gratifying to see the responses to last week’s puzzler, a continuation of a series I’d started six years ago. The challenge in question was how to design the facing for a clean finish.
AnaJan was first with a response that was aligned to my thinking, namely that a three piece front facing was needed.…
Six years ago I presented a pattern challenge. A concept sketch of it appears at right. This is from Hillhouse & Mansfield’s book Dress Pattern Design. I did a whole series of posts (5, links at close) but it didn’t get much traction because people couldn’t find suggested materials, it was too complex for my audience at the time or who knows.…
This is not the final word by any means on Monday’s puzzle. I’m stuck like a broken record, working over Yvonne(1)’s idea. And, I was semantically challenged with frequent use of the term gusset. It was hijacking the whole conversation for me.…
Wasting time Researching on Facebook the other day, I found an illustration of a dress I love. Not that I’d wear it, perish the thought, the things I like are the things I’d like to make. That’s my narrow and self serving idea of a good design.…
I was pleasantly surprised and very pleased (!) with the many responses to last week’s challenge. At right, you can see the fashion illustration of the style.
The examples left by our visitors followed a pattern which is not to say there were not variations.…
