To explore the classic white shirt in terms of elements and language. A second year, first semester project.
I am organised and happy being in a routine, but the idea of having someone controlling this, or being stuck in it, scares me. I explored this notion by what the shirt represents to me.
The shirt represents conforming to an institution; in business you are required to dress a certain way, wear the correct shirt. these shirts are full of rules themselves doen to the number of stitches.
Wearing the shirt is a way of preventing individualism by being literally wrapped in rules. To me it feels like an imprisonment of body as well as mind. Because of this, I looked at the business environment as a mental asylum. The garment literally wraps the body like a straight jacket would.
Style and structure
• I chose to link the shirt to the straight jacket, using the rules of the shirt to wrap the wearer.
• Dress made from 2 fronts and 2 sleeves to link to straight jacket which has the arms wrapping around the body.
• Harness made from the straps of the classic shirt; the cuffs and the collars (they constrain the shirt shape) this links to the straps of the straight jacket
Cordelia x
