Dressedge ( not dressage)

8/6/2014

Dressage is horses, right? You can train horses to do elegant things. To march in a totally unnatural, regal manner. Right?

Not so the embroidery machine...or the embroiderer. I began embroidering directly on the dress today... along the hem edge. It is going well. there are 7 round patterns on each bias panel of the dress. I got 5 done today. #6? It tried to eat the dress . But I saved it.

Dressedge #1

Dressedge #2

Dressedge #3

I also began drafting the petticoat pattern. Using a very short half slip as a guide, I drafted the top half of the petticoat. This part will be sewn in opaque nylon tricot. Later, like tomorrow, I will figure out how long the ruffle needs to be. It will be embroidered and edged with lace.

drafting a pattern.

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WEARING MY AGE

I have received a grant from the Jerome Foundation to work on a project that I have called "Wearing My Age."

The premises that I am working with are that our clothes communicate and they communicate somewhat differently depending on age and gender. You might think of it as "fashion as self-publishing."

The key area I am curious about surrounds the uniforms that women wear in the work place. Indeed, I will be making a uniform body of work, comprised of near identical 3 piece work outfits comprised of: a jacket, a dress, a petticoat.

Each piece represents of body of language/meaning which I will make manifest with digitized machine embroidery typography and design.

The Jacket represents the public self: what you are trying to say, how you wish to be identified, how you want to feel in the market place.

The Dress represents a more personal statement: this is closer to the real me, Within the constraints of the market place I can be creative here, This is the part of me I am generally willing to reveal

The Petticoat represents the secret self: Here lies the true language of self, these are the secrets I do not share, This is what I really think about myself, This is how I feel deep down.

Dressedge ( not dressage)

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