Second Production Class: Top and Bottom piece

Assembling the parts of the top piece: pinning the sides to the front part to sew the princess cut.

Still in the pinning process…

Done with pinning the sides to the front.

Ready for sewing the parts together.

Turns out this princess cut is not as easy as I thought. In fact, the hardest part of production until now…

Give it another try to correct.

Still not there yet…

Getting some professional help! Turns out the vintage template was a little off so we are adjusting the size.

After a few more trials and some ironing, finally ready to sew the front part together with the back parts.

And the top piece is READY!

Looking good 🙂

Now experimenting with infusing plastic to make the bottom piece material.

Sandwiching two sheets of plastic bags between baking paper.

Adjusting and aligning the plastic bags…

Putting the top baking paper on and ready to iron. Temperature is between Silk and Synthetic.

And the tentative design is taking shape!

Still a long way to go though.

First Production Class: Top piece

Starting with the top piece today: white cotton fabric.

Tracing the outline of a vintage dress template on paper: front part, side parts, back parts.

Ready with the tracing, let’s get to cutting the paper along with the template lines.

Cut out paper template parts pinned on fabric ready to be shaped!

Looked up for a sec and realized how everyone was “into” work 🙂

Done cutting out the individual parts of the fabric and made the darts: 2 on each back part and 1 on each side on the front part!

One side of the back part. I realized later that this is actually the back part…^^

Great first production day though! Feels like the dress is becoming real.

Concept Formation & Rough Sketches

Initial idea of a water dress: have “dirty” water trickle down through a water filter container and become “purified” to drink and dispense it on the dress.

Brainstorming of mechanics with Naga as well as reformulating ideas.

After some “a-ha” moments, a new design and shape is conceived.

To simplify the dress as well as make it easier to wear: 3 pieces.

  1. Top piece of white cotton that goes mid-thigh
  2. Bottom piece of infused and sewed plastic as a skirt
  3. Attachable piece of tubes, water-drop shaped plastic containers, water filter diamond-shop box with the necessary mechanical parts