18th Century Waistcoat:


For the next 3 weeks I will be working on reconstructing a 18th Century waistcoat for the costume store. In this project Dexter, our construction tutor, wants us to be able to assess and develop for ourselves how we look at the costumes we are making.
In our session on Monday we broke up into waistcoat groups and breeches groups and discussed the stages of construction for ourselves. We needed to discuss a rough time plan for when certain stages needed to be completed for.
It is important for us as makers to be able to break down our time wisely. We need to be able to understand how long certain areas will take to construct so we can work within a deadline.

The waistcoat I will be making is part of a set, a pair of breeches are being made to match. Therefore as a team me and Danielle had to cut out our pattern pieces together to ensure we were being as economical as possible. The budget allowed just for each persons pattern pieces to be cut out.

Below are images of the waistcoat I shall be producing over the next 3 weeks: