Costume Design & Fashion Technology

  Fashion  T erms: Fashion      Fashion is the most general term and applies to any way of dressing and behaving that is favored at any one time or place.   Style      Style is the person’s own choice in clothes, accessories, and others. Style is not totally dependent on clothing; it can be related to anything that makes the person look stylish. In another view, style is the extension of fashion which does not change like fashion. Line and collection      A fashion collection is a seasonal production of styles while a line is more or less the products of a business unit of a fashion brand. Each line can have several collections in a year, but a brand can also release a collection featuring outfits from multiple lines (business units).     Mannequin      A mannequin (also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dres...

  Designing Dresses for Unusual Figures: Few people are as perfect as to general figure, shape of the face, colouring, etc., that they are able to wear almost any type of dress and look well. Many of us have certain peculiarities such as narrow shoulders, flat chest or round shoulders, a large bust, or our face may be very square, so that we must use care in the design and selection of our dress. The unusual figures are classified into two groups. 1.   Becoming         2. Unbecoming 1. Stout Figure Becoming: Dark colors, vertical lines, A-line dresses, empire waistlines, tailored fits, and V-necks help elongate the body and create a slimming effect. Unbecoming: Bulky fabrics, horizontal stripes, tight-fitting dresses, and overly detailed embellishments can add volume and make the figure appear broader. 2. Thin Figure Becoming: Layered fabrics, ruffles, pleats, prints, and textured mat...

 Adoption of Fashion Theories Fashion adoption is the process by which a new style is adopted by the consumer after its commercial introduction. The adoption of a new style entails a shift within the population from the styles appropriate at a given time the previous year to the new style offerings of the current season. Individuals adopt at different speeds and at different times. Various fashion adoption process models have been postulated to attempt to explain and predict the intricacies of the movement. Types of Fashion Adoption Theories      To understand how new fashion ideas are spread and how they are adapted to the taste, life-style and budgets of various costumers.      Basically, there are three variations of the fashion adaptation process traditional adaptation, reverse adaptation, and mass dissemination. 1.       Trickle up Theory 2.   ...