Costume Store- From the Beginning 


The SDP project is split into two projects. The first and main part of the project is the Costume Store. In this part of SDP we'll have to look at a number of garments ranging from shirts, waistcoats, breeches and blouses, each of these from a range of eras.
This project is design to develop us as individual costume markers, we need to be able to problem solve and see the construction development for ourselves.

The project will be split up into a 3 different sections:
. First 2 weeks- Edwardian Shirt
.After Easter- 3 weeks- 18th Century Breeches/ Waistcoat
. 2/3 weeks - Blouse - Early Victorian
                                 - Late Victorian
                                 - 3rd option possible



The very first week of the costume store I was on a placement week, this meant that when I came back to the costume store I had a week to create an Edwardian shirt.
Due to the loss of a week I had been allocated a more basic shirt to make it possible to create in a week. To create a feel of a more industrial working environment, we had the patterns provided for us and needed to work within a team to cut out our pattern pieces and do it in a way as to waste as little material as possible.