Maria - Wedding dress, sketch and references

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For the wedding dress I was looking at images of wedding dresses in the 1950s due to historical accuracy. I decided to base my design on the lace trend which was very popular during the 50s.

Image from Fifties Wedding

Image from Caroline Arthur

The next step was to chose shapes for a lace.  I decided to come up with a pattern which I designed reminding of a lace. For that purpose I took a very common lace curved element (see the image on the top) and combined it with a typical pattern from the 1950s - dots. And that is the result I achieved:

A technical issue about this dress can rise from the fact that it should be put above the home-work dress during the choreography. For that reason the other wedding dresses don't seem pretty much as a dresses but more like wedding shirts. Here I decided to come up with a braver desicion. My design also has a cut on the front but fits strictly to the body figure. In order to be achieve this effect of a dress instead of shirt, there will be 3 magnetic buttons on the area from under the breasts to the waist (on the narrowed area). The button will buckle at the moment which the dance put it around her body saving her any time during the choreography.

Recycled material:

The wedding dress like the first one also includes shiny materials as the first one. The decoration aroung the around the decolletage is made of tiny pieces of cd material - the glanced layer between the between two sharp disks on which the data is recorded. The lace on the skirt will be made of cellophane decoration sewn on the fabric. My desire to use cellophane referencing Jennifer Henry's work had additional impact on my choice of simpler shapes for the lace texture (because of the sensitivity of the cellophane material). the hair accessorie is also made of cellophane which will be taped on the side side of a diadem which will hold the veil to the head of the dancer.