For survey 5, our research topic is fashion back from the mid-eighteen century, mainly focused on women’s clothing. As a designer, I was assigned the task of making an artifact relating my topic. the reasoning why I chose to make the dress was it has a completely different look from the dresses today. on the other hand, outfits for man did have such a dramatic evolution like women’s.
I planed to make a dress with napkins and a plastic bottle. T in the period have hoop skirts underneath them, I used an upper part of a coke bottle to represent it. Also, let it have the same purpose as real life, which is to hold up the material and give it an umbrella shape look, For the upper body, I chose to use paper to demonstrate the cloth holder. I sized it into a triangle with the head facing down and let it be the super tight, v-shaped corsets. then I lay the napkin on to the paper to form an upper body.
After I finished the artifact, i think I did well on the dress and it turned out unexpectedly good. I would give it an 8.5 out of 10. if I get a chance to make improvements on it, it would be the spread layout and the do designs on the frame. From making the artifact, I enjoy finding out the similarities between cloth today and back then, and impressed by the craziness of the dress designs.