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My mind is still buzzing from a 4 day college trip to London town.
The fabric shops…
The window displays at the Cloth House…
The visit to Zandra Rhodes studio…
Trying on the clothes at Zandra Rhodes!…
The V&A museum (best scones in town too)…
And of course the shops…
Over the last couple of weeks I have been madly making toiles and pattern cutting for my garden coat. I started with a vintage 1930’s house coat pattern that I bought on ebay. Making the pattern up with no changes quickly revealed areas that needed to be updated. The cleavage was a very different shape to what we are more used to 70 years later – underwear must have changed too!
I then tried adding a belt to excentuate the waist from the front:
And from the back:
The next phase focused on pattern cutting – changing the pattern to a size 10/12, updating the shape of the bust, dropping the arm hole, and adding more flare at the hip.
This was then made up as a calico toile to test the final pattern. I also decided to update the design further shortening the whole coat to make it a bit more cheeky:
Side…
Back…
Next step – add lining and start preparing fabrics for final coat…
