Damned By My Own Sense of Fair Play

Well crap.

The hubby pointed out last night that I am not really following my own rules about dress “design” when it comes to this placard fronted dress project. I tend to pick a dress from a specific image and then reproduce it as closely as possible. At the very least, if I make a dress that is not from a specific source I work to ensure that the dress I ‘create’ is based on commonly represented design elements.

I am pretty far off those rails with this project so far.

Part of me wants to pout and stomp and make the damn thing anyway.

But the guiltier part of me knows I need to do more research.

*le sigh*

At any rate, I had fun last night playing design games with my original sketch. I love doing this sort of thing (“Mommy! Mommy! I want a paper doll!”), but realized I have never shared any of this aspect of my costume projects with folks on here before.

So, here are the two sketches I came up with last night.

 

 

To be honest, they both demonstrate the problem that my husband was pointing out: neither resembles the inspiration images closely enough (other than in basic outline of the bodice) to be identifiable as having originated from them.

*makes a twisty face*

Back to the library!