Unit X: James Long - Generic Garments

As we are looking as a group at sportswear, i brought in a few of my own vintage sportswear jackets picked up at a kilo sale a while ago to draw from. 

We need to not only look at how the garment sits on the manequin but also its fuctional detaials, finishings and also play around with it on the manequin to maybe invert inovative shapes for garment designs. This way of finding inspiration for garment design is one of my favourites along with looking at my intial, primary research for interesting shapes. I also found a few tennis skirts and shorts whilst meandering a kilo sale, so took photos of these too.

I feel this way gives more inovative ideas and has more context your work, rather than just copying the shapes of yesteryear. I feel fashion design is about this experimentation to see how things can be applied to the body, especially in university when we have the most creative freedom. However i feel this can be difficult to communicate during group work. Ive staudied fashion design at level 5 (HND Fashion and Textiles) already so i have a good idea of what to do, but i feel i may be underestimated in my group for this knowledge as i now study textiles. So it can be difficult for me, along with anxiety to communicate that i am capable of these ideas and for people to trust my opinion. 

 

  

Above is my white sports adidas jacket from a vintage kilo sale -  so hopefully it is from the 70s! It is from Germany as the label is mainly German. I drew some of the functional details of this jacket and hopefully they will be used in the group file. the panels on this are across the body and change size from the front to the back. there is smll piping goinf down two pipe lines of eacharm and has white cuffs. there is a late adidas logo on the back of the jacket and his is something natalie had mentioned in a previous tutorial -  she suggested looking at the tennis racquets themselves and how they have the 'Wilson" branding on them and suggested we find a way of maybe nringing a James LOng branding into our designs so this is something i worked on whit a sweatshirt design which you shall see in later posts.

 

Above is another sporstwear jacket i found at a vintage kilo sale. i really appreciated the oanelling of this design especially on the left arm which i have photogrphied here. i think using oannelling in our designs with our sample would be very interesting and would be fun to mix up textures and prints.

 A Current trend i have seen in menswear design on the high street is using striped banding and ribbing - especially on sportsweat. on these garments it was on the shoulderand runnign down the arm to the cuff.

Below are photos of vintage tennis skirts and shorts. the first is the tennis skirt. it had an abstract print on the front and had two pleats on either side and the same pleats on the back with a button detail. it would be so interesting to work with a pleat for a few of our designs as that is what tennis garments mainly are made in. i find fabric manipulation fun and interesting to create so would enjot to do this.

The second is another a skit but this was more af an A line design so it feel differently yot the first skirt. this one also had short underneath it for the wearers dignity whilst play - practical. it also had a branding to the bottom left and an interesting mesh panel toward the bottom hem.