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cocktail dress, senior year


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Cocktail dress for one of my senior studio classes. Unfortunately it doesn't fit the dress form anymore because the fit model is a bit smaller. It looks better on her, anyway. The challenge of making this garment was in working with the stripes in a tasteful way. Another interesting aspect of the assignment was the process we used in making the dresses; we started by draping rather than sketching first. As a result, we were able to experiment with the fabric and come up with designs that we might not have thought of by sketching alone.
copyright Meg Couch, 2011.