Week 7- Skirt 3

This week we were making a third skirt and my team and I chose to work with a mix of wool fabric. When I got the fabric, it directly reminded me of the all times classic Chanel suit so I thought I wanted to make a really ladylike skirt, and the colours of the fabric which where really light ones made me want to add the cute element in my skirt. After some research I did to relevant designers I started experimenting on the stand.I started by cutting 6 pieces in rectangular shapes of different lengths. I also wanted to add small pieces of lace in the end of each piece in order to show where each piece ended and for decoration.

Then I used a basic block for skirt to make the lining on which all the pieces would be held.

 I sewed the pieces on the middle front and back and under it, I added 6 small pieced of fabric in the shape of a loop. I also added the zip on the lining piece because i wanted it to be hidden under the wool.

Then for the sides I used 2 big square pieces of fabric with a kind of pleat on the top.

And the surprise!!! This skirt can be worn with tulle enforcement under the fabric to give an extra volume to the shape! 

The zip is now hidden 

and over it, in order for the body to be able for the body to feet in, in the area of the hip, I allowed 10 cm of fabric which has a button hole and closes on a button

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This week I was very satisfied by how the skirt worked because it represented exactly what I thought about making with the use of this fabric. I believe that the best feature of the skirt was the multiple use of it- the fact that it can be worn as a morning skirt without the tulle under it and also it can be transformed into a more formal skirt for evening wear. I also likes the antithesis between the horizontal  lines of the middle front and back in contrast to the vertical side ones. I think this skirt can easily be called fashion because the design of it might be not that complicated but it is a skirt that can be worn easily by almost every woman of every age and it is not a simple skirt the same time. A problem I faced was the place of the zip because I wanted it to be hidden and not sewed on the woolen fabric because that would destroy the form and the volume around the hip when I would add the tulle. So when I sewed the top fabric , i wanted it to form the same pleats as the other side had already but this would mean that the zip had no use and that no person could feet in. This problem made me discover my own opening style which was the extra fabric allowance that would then fold and close to a button. Another problem that teached me something new was that the fabric was fraying a lot and after i pressed it for some time is shrieked and that made is fray less. 

The thing I believe I should try to improve next time is creating a more complicated design that would set the level higher and will be more challenging.

The fabric I used for the making of this skirt was cotton elastic wool and I used 1 meter for the whole garment. The fabric costed  5 pounds per meter and it was sourced at Fabric Land.