My mock final major project...

 Last year I designed and created this dress for my mock final major project. As we could choose our own brief I decided to design costumes for three of the characters who appear in the Shakespeare play The Tempest. The three characters feature in one scene, however they derive from ancient greek mythology. Juno was the Queen of the Gods, she was married to Zeus and she rode in a chariot flanked by peacocks. Ceres, the goddess of the harvest and Iris the messenger was the goddess of the rainbow, this character is who the above dress was designed for. I was very pleased with the outcome of the dress until I added colour. As I am sure you can tell I painted it with Fabric paints however it dried much quicker than I expected it to and it would not blend together. The wings on the shoulders were made using water soluble fabric onto which I appliqued red material using lots and lots of machine stitch. This gave the wings a nice firm structure and I could mold them to a certain extent.