Thursday, 22 March 2012

Decon/Recon ~Update

Olive Green H&M Military Style Jacket
I used this Military-style jacket that I bought from eBay and reconstructed it into an embellished collar. I used various fabric manipulation techniques such as ruffle puffs, Kanzashi flowers, suffolk puffs and more. I also tried to keep some obvious features from the original garment such as the epaulette, lapel and buttons. Since most the embellishment was on one side, and it wasn't a light fabric, it sat better on the tailor's dummy than on the model. This is the finished result:-