The second endeavor from the Architecturewear project, enriched with a decorated neckline, embedded watchpocket and passpoil buttonholes.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
The Tangular Rings
Selecting Buttons
There’s no need for skull or coffin shaped buttons for a garment to look gothic. Though it certainly helps.
To best employ the archetypal fasteners, the chosen button should fortify the semblance of the garment into an enunciated style, wether it be classical or modernistic, like in other decorative arts, prevalence rests on formation, substance and color relation.
Following image shows the design I selected for the Red Shirt; a semitransparent nickle button, which ricochets the silky crimson through its clefts, instead of competing with it; along with the carved-wooden buttons on the White Shirt, bringing copious shades of the base color while enhancing the its organic look; the color-taking nacre-stone buttons on the Green Shirt and, lastly, the Frock Coat’s high contrasting decorative buttons, mimicking cast-iron but actually made out of plastic.
Industrial Workings
The Red Shirt
The re
d shirt, my long pending design, matured into a lucid art-nouveau piece featuring elegantly intersecting lines tailoring the garment. To be fashioned in lightweight fluent silk, its crimson pieces are thoughtfully drawn as to not overstretch the delicate material, consigning all forces to the strengthened shoulder-plates and the detachable breast-plate.
Used to fasten the vestment and adhere as its focal point the front panel’s upper layer quality is emphasized with outwardly folding excess coverings, held in place by intricate silver buttoning, also enclosing the optional curved belt, initiating mid-waist in order to culminating tracing the hip-line, covering the shirt’s segmenting frontal splits.
It’s graceful sleeves flowing in Flemish pleats, approximating the White Shirt‘s in complexity, yet attaininga contrarily demeanor, exhibiting silhouette-lines emerging from cuspated top pleats traversing into long pointed ruffles, bound by removable cuffs.
Having only just concluded this design , while quite confident about its feasibility, it pertains subjective to change, that is, if I will be able to finish it this year.



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