For the tailored shirt & trousers I took inspiration from the art and music from the Harlem Renaissance. Translating the cool, fine silohouettes through my pattern drafting.

After Design selection I was not exactly ecstatic about the designs my professors strongly suggested I choose to align with the rest of my teammates on the group project. I felt they didn't really go with my individual theme. However I still powered through and toiled hating the garments the entire time except for the trousers. Later, once toile review happened, everyone's garments needed to be changed to fit everything into a cohesive collection.

When it came to fabric choice I really had a nice vibrant wool in mind to go with my other wool I got from my Uni's fabric shop for my group. The shirting fabric was much simplier to source in comparison to the trousers.

Cutting the fabric was really just measuring and laying the pieces accuartely to save as much fabric as possible.

Flat Felled seams are an integral to a sophisticated tailored shirt. I also managed to hand sew the plackets and cuffs with a slip stitch for a more refined touch.

The pockets were done with a french seam on the bag, and an understitch on the pocket opening.

Pressin the flat felded seams is of upmost importance during construction. I'd say its best to make sure to repress previous ones when doing new ones. Actions can change depending on the fabric.

When doing my historical research I came across many trousers with double fastenings during the 17th-19th century. Which inspired me to design many double zipper trousers leading me to end up doing one.

Cuffs were the final thing I had to do for my look. I had to use a buttonhole machine I was unfamiliar with, which very troubling at first due to the abundance of mortorcycle garbage disposale love baby noises coming from the mechanism.

These were my final Garments from my time in UCA. I'm very pleased with what I created and what I learned along the way.