In this project, we were given a chance to design a shirt without style limitations. The only requirement was to incorporate any founded materials in our new shirt to make it sustainable. We began by learning how to make a basic shirt, then varied our designed patterns from the basic ones.

 

I wanted to use some fabric manipulation techniques to give my shirt a special texture. Before applying it to the final shirt, I made some samples using fabric scarps left from the last project. After trying out different approaches, I decided to use 10mm wood beads to do a bead smocking technique on the fabric, which would be the sleeve wrist design.

 

For the style of my final shirt, I wanted it to look young and playful and with a movement. I personally don’t like long shirt, so I made my shirt cropped, but with extra long sleeves and a big peter-pan collar. After sketching out the idea, I loved it instantly. For small details like buttons, I wanted it to use one big round wood button as the top one, to compliment the wood beads on sleeves and make the whole look cohesive. And for the rest of the front placket, I decided to use sew-on snaps and leave the right side of the shirt clean.