FASHION AND PATTERN DESIGN OF LADIES’ DRESSES WITH TRANSFORMATION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRAPERIES

Abstract

One of the ways of creation of new fashion designs is the transformation of a garment in another one. According to the main design principles silhouettes, lines, and forms of elements and pieces can be changed. According to both fashion and technical design the change of the elements with decorative and constructive function is more important than changing only decorative ones. The transformations are possible for all of elements with decorative and constructive function: darts, seams, 3D elements. And according to the fashion and pattern making view the drapery is maybe the most interesting three dimensional element, which can be with only decorative, but in the more of the cases it is with decorative and constructive function. The paper presents fashion and pattern design of ladies’ dresses on the base of transformation of the three basic types of drapes: twist knot, twisted and free draperies. In created variants draperies are with decorative and constructive function. With presented way of transformation new designs of draped ladies’ dresses are easy and successfully created. Every of the basic three types of drapery with decorative and constructive function: twist knot, twisted and free ones can be changed with other two types. The facilitating of design and pattern making is result not only that transformations are made on one basic model, but also that systemized approaches of constructing of twist knot and twisted draperies are used.