Vintage evaluation

The era I chose for this project was the 1950’s, originally I wanted to look at women of the 50’s but as I was short on time this wasn’t really an option so I changed it to women’s fashion, for a while I looked mainly at dresses and then when I went to do my final designs I thought they all looked quite generic and plain so I changed two of the designs and I knew I wanted them to still relate to women so I tried to get two things that are seen as quite feminine.

The research I did was based on pinterest. I looked at many different things that were linked to the 1950’s and from looking at that I managed to come up with a few different ideas on what i could base by final pieces of bunting on and idea on how I would like mine to come out.

I developed my ideas from my research sheets to my bunting by trying to include as much as I could from the sheet work and trying to develop the research so that when it came to making the actual bunting I would be able to make them as quickly as I could and so that they were well made as I didn’t have much time to get them done.

To produce my bunting I took the calico and covered it with another material for the background as I was running short on time and I didn’t really have time to do much else with it. One of my designs was just a print out and then I used a sewing machine to stitch all the way around the image, I decided to use a straight stitch because my sewing machine has a habit of the thread getting caught inside the machine when it is on anything other than a straight stitch and I didn’t want to risk ripping the paper if this did occur. My second design was just a plain dress that I cut out of a scrap of fabric and then I used a zigzag stitch to go around the edge of the fabric to secure it, I also added lace to the top of the bunting as I thought it looked very plain without it. My third design was another dress which I got the design from a picture from a 1950’s magazine, I got some scrap fabric and cut it up into small shapes and then layered them and I used a straight stitch to secure each row and then I cut out a part for the body of the dress and used a zigzag stitch for that part. For the final design I did teacups and I used a few print offs and stitched them on and then I drew a tea cup and used thread the fill in the space on the cup and once I had done that I stitched the piece of fabric with me design onto the bunting.

I think I managed my time management as well as I could with the small amount of time we were given to complete the project. I did struggle at points but I managed to just get everything do to the best possible standard. I don’t think it made a difference that it was for a client because I am always working towards deadlines and I thought this to be the same as any other project.

I’m fairly happy with the project overall but I do think some things could have gone better and I think I would have benefited from more time as I don’t think I could really get the best standard of work done in such little time, I also believe that my final pieces could have been improved and that my idea sheets could have looked better, however, other than time constraints I think it went well and I got everything done on time.

Pinterest board
http://uk.pinterest.com/mollieprentice9/vintage-ideas/