Inspirational Cleopatra Dress Designing for Modern Age Girls

Abstract

The investigation was carried out in Ludhiana city. Desired number of Cleopatra dresses were identified and documented from the secondary sources. Participants’ preferences were taken for the development of designs for the costumes through developed inventory from the three purposively selected colleges of Ludhiana city. On the basis of the preference, ten designs were designed and developed on Corel Draw X3. Then, these ten developed designs were shown to the panel of fifteen experts to shortlist six costumes for the final construction. Six most preferred designs were constructed. The results of the study revealed that the majority of the participants were between the age range of 21–24 yr, graduate and belonged to business class, nuclear family and had a monthly income between Rs 100, 001/-to-Rs 130, 000/-. Flared silhouette, Boat neckline, Plain sleeve and Peplum were most preferred by the participants whereas straight/tubular silhouette, neck with collars, cap sleeve and cowls were least preferred by the participants. Seventy one percent of the participants prefer two colours in the costumes whereas eighteen percent and eleven percent participants prefer single colour and multiple colours, respectively. Crepe fabric was most preferred by the participants whereas rayon fabric was least preferred by the participants.