hats

  Hats have been around for a very long time. It is impossible to say when the first animal skin was pulled over a head as protection against the elements and although this was not a hat in the true sense, it was realized that covering your head could sometimes be an advantage. One of the first hats to be depicted was found in a tomb painting at Thebes and shows a man wearing a coolie-style straw hat. Other early hats include the Pileus, which was a simple skull cap, the Phrygian cap, which became identified later as the 'liberty cap' given to slaves in Greece and Rome when they were made free men, and the Pestasos which comes from ancient Greece and is the first known hat with a brim. Although women from an early stage were always expected to have their heads covered by veils, kerchiefs, hoods, caps and wimples, it was not until the end of the 16th century that women's structured hats, based on those of male courtiers began to be seen.
picture of hats that in the past

Some research jobs

                                                                           gathers

Gathering allows for making a long piece of fabric to fit with a shorter piece of fabric and also is a method of easing a seam to allow insertion of sleeves and other rounded pattern pieces.

pleats

A fold in fabric that is either inverted or folded outward, is not sewn except on the top edge (as in a skirt or slacks waistband), and provides decorative or functional fullness.

tucks

See pin tuck. A method of folding and then sewing fabric together resulting in a raised seam, often seen in heirloom sewing, the bodice of a woman's blouse or a man's formal shirt.

Croset research part 3

Look through the Web side again  to know more about croset in the past , this time is about the Regency and Victorian.

When the waist moves back to its natural place during the 1820s, corsets become more popular again. Until the 1840s, well-shaped figures can do without one without drawing Looks. In 1828, lacing eyelets with hammered-in metal grommets are invented (until then, eyelets had been stitched). A year later, the planchet came in: Two metal strips, one with little mushroom-shaped heads, the other with eyelets, used to close and open the corset in front without having to undo the lacing every time. This busk, as it is called in English, makes it possible to change the lacing completely: Both ends of the cord are threaded through the eyelets crosswise and knotted together at the end. At waist level, one loop is formed on either side and used to pull the lacing tight. This kind of lacing is still used today.

Homework task

Sketches of silhouette
* Hourglass & S-Bend

* Tent & Spindle

* Column

* Turn over collar & Raglan sleeves

* Trumpet sleeves , Placket & Hobble skirt

* Boat neckline& Square neckline

Corset part 2 research

Did my research on corset again _
Corset is an undergarment traditionally made of stiffened material laced tight to the body in order to slim a woman's waist and evidence shows that some type of waist-cinching garment was worn by cretan women between 3000 and 1500 B.C. , but narrow waists became the fashion among women in Europe during the Middle Ages. Women from that period wore a forerunner of the corset, called a body or stay, or a pair of stays. The rigid, bust-to-hip corset became popular in the sixteenth century and persisted in various guises up through the middle of the twentieth century.

picture of a corset that similar that undergarment traditionally made of stiffened material laced tight

Homework task

Practising drawing details

details : sewing stitches on the side / close to the edge of the garment .

Button on the center of the garment , the button is located at the over lapping area , from left to th right .

Fabric - Denim .

Details : sewing stitches on the side /close to the edge of the garment , which can easily see in the cuff area .

Button that provided is to tighten the wrist area , make it not so baggy .

Button is located at the point that 2 edges meet .

Fabric - something like denim .

details :  sewing stitches on the side / close to the edge of the garment .

There is a button on the side , which allow to tighten or loosen the pants .

The pants was fill up with white outline square pattern and a pocket on the side .

Details :  sewing stitches on the side / close to the edge of the garment . Can be easily seen the sewing stitches as it is in orange color .

Pocket in the middle , with it's black background and white square outline pattern , some words on the top .

Fabric - denim 

Corset

Having some history lesson of fashion on last Tuesday about corset and I do go Internet look for some of it history and this is what I get .
The origins of the corset are unknown. From the early 16th century, corset-shaped cages of iron are preserved, but it's almost certain that they had nothing to do with normal clothing. Theories run from early fetish accessories to brute attempts at orthopaedics.

drawing of a 16 century corset from internet resource .

Colour of the year (2017)

For a world weary of so much red and blue, green may be just the right tone for the  Pantone Color of the Year of 2017 Greenery is a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring when nature’s greens revive, restore and renew.