Marvin Gaye Chetwynd costume making: Gluing

My greatest work on Marvin's exhibition was the gluing of the dresses for The Green room performance. These dresses were already sewed from Marvin from white cotton material, all of the them with laces on the back in order to be applicable to different body shapes. Our work was to cut different shapes, mostly triangles and circles from various colors and to glue them on the dresses. These costumes were inspired by the 60's "dots" fashion. We decided that the easiest approach to this process would be to put the dresses on the floor, to arrange the shapes on them in the way we wanted to and then  to start gluing...

The shapes were made from two types of fabric - natural which were thicker and synthetic which were thinner. The glue as a making tool requires higher concentration because it can leave terrible stains especially on the synthetic matherials. While working with it, I would recommend using thicker fabric. Anyway, with a sinthetic fabric ugly stain effect could be avoided with a bit of creativity. One possible solutions could be just putting glue on the fabric in a certain very simple shape for example dots. Even though the stains would be noticeable if they're in the shapes of dots, that could add some freshness to the costume(as you will see from some of the uploaded pictures).
I'm uploading a collection of all the created dresses - some of them back and front, other - only front, if there's nothing different on the back :)

      

      

     

And finishing with a group photo of the performers wearing the costumes we made :)