Stretch Festival - Mandruah

Censura, Miss Tak and I entered the Stretch Festivals “Common Thread” competition. The Common Thread was Calico. The group decided to re-vamp our Gary Harvey inspired corset dress from earlier on this year.

The original Dress

 

We completely pulled the dress apart, removed the garbage bag flowers, and separated the skirt from the corset. After which we made up a calico dress lining so the model gained the ability to move and breathe while wearing the garment. Then we remade all the flowers in calico, by hand with metallic thread and attached halter straps to the dress lining. We varnished the corset to give it a glossy effect, glued/sewed the lining to the inside of the corset and attached an exposed lap zip to the back of the corset. Finally we attached the garbage bag skirt back to the corset and hand tacked/glued on all the hand sewn calico flowers to the waist of the corset.

Here is the photos of the finished Garment displayed on our lovely model during the festival.

 
Although we did not win, the dress was well received by the audience; it was great that the first years were able to gain recognition for our college and themselves.

The first year’s dress was created during a pressure test situation where they were required to make a dress out of just sew-in interfacing, there dress was inspired from aspects of Kate Middleton wedding dress.

Here is some photos of their completed outfit:

And these are the rest of the photos showing the other entries in the competition:

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