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Diagrams 75 – 77: The Sleeve
The particularly observant may have noticed that at no point did Mr. Regal tell us how we were going to shape or cut sleeves for the sack coat that we’ve spent all this time learning how to draft and cut. If we want to have something like a finished jacket, though, we’ll want to at…
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Diagrams 4-13: Adjusting the Basic Sack Coat
Finally, we’ve created the start of a sack coat pattern using the methods found in The American Garment Cutter. From here we still have a few adjustments and alterations before we can get to part where we can actually start cutting some fabric and put it all together. This, of course, is where Regal’s advice…
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Diagrams 2 and 3: Finishing a Basic Sack Coat Pattern
There was a lot in just putting together maybe half of the lines necessary to draft a basic sack coat in Diagram 1, and it’s not done yet, we have two more diagrams to get through before we can even consider this mostly finished and there are yet more issues we’ll encounter along the way.…
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Sokka Costume Design and Construction
Okay, after doing the research from the last post and crafting some idea of what Sokka, warrior of the Southern Water Tribe, might actually be wearing, I finally feel somewhat comfortable looking into how we, as costumers, can actually construct those garments to be worn be real people. Fortunately, each of the actual components is…
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Diagram 1: The Basic Starting Block
We’ll start with the basic block that can serve as the basis for many different garments. Of course, the book doesn’t actually just reuse this block for everything, that would be too easy, but it does introduce a basic system for drafting that will be reused consistently.
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The American Garment Cutter
The American Garment Cutter, written by Samuel Regal and published by the American Fashion Company in 1908 isn’t exactly a classic, which is unfortunate because the book has an excellent collection of then-popular men’s outerwear, making it an excellent resource for men’s costumes and classically styled garments. Let’s go through this old drafting manual to…
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Designing Sokka – Costume Research and Philosophy
Well, that title sounded a bit pretentious, didn’t it? That is what this post is about, though, after a fashion at least. I’ve always considered making a good costume to be more than just replicating what was shown on screen. It’s about looking like the character, after all. That might sound a little silly, how…
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Orville Uniform Jacket Design and Construction
If you know me at all, you know that I’m absolutely crazy about The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s brilliant love-letter to the ’90’s “Star Trek” era. It’s funny, hopeful, and somehow honest with just the right mix of science fiction, social commentary, and workplace comedy . So, of course, I had to have the uniforms.
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