This project has been made possible by donors to the College of Fine Arts Fund for Excellence, the University of Arizona's School of Theatre Film & Television, and the individuals who have generously donated to the Medici Scholarship Foundation (specifically Ms. Robyn Kessler and Robyn and Jeff Timan) . Thank you for all your support!
IT'S JUNE FIRST AND THE STRESS HIT ME LIKE A TON OF BRICKS.
WOOOH.
So I'm here on a Saturday because I couldn't keep my brain from thinking about constructing these pieces. I've been up since 5:30am but I got to work at about 730am. IT'S FINE, I'M FINE.
I don't feel like I've made significant progress, but it's moving at a good rate. I had to special order my fabric because it's back-ordered, and they spelled my address wrong (I called and tried to fix it, but they spelled it wrong again), so HOPEFULLY that comes soon....
As for my mock-ups, it took me two hours on Friday to cut the pattern pieces for these pair of pants and assemble them, but it looks pretty cool!
So the fabric actually keeps this shape fairly well, but it does need that under structure that the original has. I need to lengthen the crotch so it fits the other male mannequin. I might have to call my adviser to come in and help me with the upper under structural piece, as I am not sure how to negotiate it into the crotch with the rigelene or whatever I'll be using.
The horizontal slash and spread here really helped with the ballooning portion at the waist. I need to make a few other changes to the pattern, but hopefully it should be much easier from this point out.
It was difficult to put this together because all of the pattern pieces look almost the same but have very slight differences. I had to cut each piece in the order they were cut in paper with, and assemble it in pieces in the same order one-by-one. Took so long!
The downfall of working so closely with sheer fabric is that anything that touches it will get pencil on them...these are my hands after only an hour working with it. No wearing white shirts while working on this project!
Sorry these past two posts have been so short. I've been distracted by the fabric order and the other requirements of this project. Hopefully the progress pictures show how far along we are through it.
Thanks for reading!