Today was the first day of my final degree year, and I have hit the ground running.
I have spent a lot of the Summer in research and preparation for this unit and today I really felt as if I had a good start.
I will be keeping a running blog as I work through this project; an academic blog, centered around processes and evaluation as a way of documenting what I'm doing.
Firstly, this week, whilst I make a start on the practical costuming I will be working out a realistic timetable, so I can look at it and know where I am and also write up my learning agreement which will explain the body of work that I will hand in at the end of the unit for assessment.
The JAA
The Janet Arnold Award, run by The Costume Society, is an annual competition for GB students who are undertaking a relevant degree. A great costume historian, she produced four books in a series called The Patterns of Fashion, which are for all intents and purposes like a bible to costume students. In the competition you can pick any of the costumes she had studied to reproduce- to their original measurements, using as best you can, traditional methods of the time.
Historical garments are a huge passion of mine and so I felt this was a very apt oppertunity for 'Specialist Practice' as it is something I want to specialise in. During the Summer I visited a number of dresses from the books- all charming and all very different, ranging from as early as 1760-1878. For reasons that I will go into further in a subsequent post, I will be making a costume from 1878 The Victorian Natural Form Period.
I have photos to post from my first visit to the dress, again, in a further post. But for now I have a rendering from a fashion journal of the period(possibly Harpes Bazar or similar) to give a taste of the things to come.
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