2020, "Ancient Egypt"

Our four sketchbook assignment work to help us figure out our design and our inspiration. With the theme being Ancient Egypt, I felt inspired by the colors and patterns in the Pharaohs boat. After looking into the different textures and colors, I researched my time period inspiration and chose the 1920 as the flapper silhouette reminded me of the shape of the boat, which became my focus. I listed some of the materials I had at the time, then stated my swipes. Since there was a lot of small parts to this garment, I decided to draw them out individually , to not only make things easier to know how much materials I would need, but to also make things easier to construct later. I collected my inspiration photos and things that I wanted to incorporate to make my first design, but after revisions, I changed my design around a bit so it would fit the materials I had on hand. I decided to keeping the flapper style and used my materials to mimic the designed on the boat and to give the illusion of a longer, rectangular shape. 

This section proved to be more challenging than I had thought, and took a longer time than I had expected. Measuring, cutting, painting and gluing the outfit together was time-taking, but excited at the least. It's always a good feeling to finish one part and move on to another, finally seeing the dress start to come together. At this stage, I made the accessories, such as the Head-dress, the necklace, and the armbands. Of course there was problems along the way. One of the major ones was with the headpiece, which would not stay upright on the head.  Many other problems occurred, but had easy solutions.  Then we were given our lineup and our photo was posted.