The continual ‘community’ dress is created with a under and overgarment, the undergarment being the continual garment that can be worn by many people at once and the over garment is a uniform type shirt which keeps everyone systematic in dress.
- In this garment there is 5 different textiles, 3 fusing and 3 ways of fastening. This will help generate ideas and create a platform for designing a collection.
- The undergarment is made up of mainly synthetics in hope to find this part of the garment still in tack keeping the continuity in the clothing.
The main dress piece: polyester
Each shirt is made up of a different natural fibre composition, different fastening and different type of fusing.
1. Silk/cotton blend with light weight fusing, plastic buttons and buttonholes
2. Cotton (cheesecloth) with velco opening and thick fusing
3. 100% linen with snap lock fastenings and sew-in tailors fusing
These shirts where also overlocked with 100% polyester thread and sewn with 100% cotton thread. The side seams were hand sewn with 100% Nylon thread.
Some documentation of the burial site and garment:
Lupines’ were planted with the linen shirt, these are a very fast growing seed that hopefully will interact with the linen during the month it is buried.
I also used Lime in the burial which was used in mass graves to help bodies break down.. hopefully this will work to break down the different fabrics within my garment.
Organic garden fertilizer was also used on the silk/cotton blend shirt – this will be interesting to see if this reacts with the undergarment or the shirt. There is also a tomato plant being planted over this shirt – hopefully this will have time to interact with the garment!
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