I decided that I should start making the top as I need to do my photo shoot soon. I want to change the neckline, transform it into a crop top and add embellishment. I will use the deconstruct week as inspiration for this as I found it very educational and enjoyable. It allowed me to realise that not all pieces of clothing need to be made from scratch, but instead one thing can be made into another by using creativity and skills. The first element of the process I need to to do it cut the bottom off so that I can see the size of the top. Considering the top is already hemmed in the centre, I cut along the edge of the mesh panel in order to create a crop top. By doing this, I can now re design the neck line and see how it measures onto a model. I chose to cut a square neck. After I done this and was pleased with the results, I moved onto the patterns and embellishment. Keeping to my chosen pattern, I hand stitched the design at both sides of the piece using yellow thread and cotton. This was easier than the earlier practices, but I still found this quite complicated as I wanted the stitches to be neat and even. After stitching 3 rows per line for a few hours, I am mostly happy with the result of it. On a few parts, there are some smaller stitches but due to the larger outline row, this is less obvious. A simpler way of doing this would have been to use a sewing machine, but I prefer to hand stitch as it's easier to be more accurate to your design. I then added diamantes (some round and some square) to add the glamour the the 20's and to add some extra feminine aspects. Overall, I am very pleased with my top as It is how I imagined it to be. I need to do a photo shoot now and this will be the main focus of the photos.
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Figure 1 Unknown author. 2014. [Online] Available at http://www.boohoo.com/restofworld/clothing/tops/icat/new-in/sammy-sheer-panel-vest/invt/azz32389
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