Shirt deconstruction and creation

Our task this week i found really helpful. By deconstructing a charity shop vintage shirt. I was surprised by how many parts there are to the garment, my shirt in particular had 24 pattern parts. I also found it interesting and informative to then look how all the part would fit back together and really see the skill it would take. This was a group activity, where we shared and discussed our ideas and what we found out in a group discussion. As this project is about collaboration it was nice to be able to discuss our ideas comfortably and to be able to hear my peers ideas.

I really enjoyed taking apart the shirt, however was shocked by how long it took and now appreciate how long it takes to construct this garments as well as on a mass scale. I discovered  how intricate and detailed shoulder pieces are and what kinda shape creates a different look. I also found out that packets vary widely from jacket to jacket.

I really enjoyed finding ways of creating garments with the shirts pattern piece, looking at what interesting shapes i can create not only just from the piece but from look at the shapes i saw and drew from black pool pleasure beach. If I could add anything to my work here I would have like to work on creating sleeves.