Clothing and non-historical Fancy Dress Commissions

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2014 - The first Byzantine shirt: A gift for a friend, with inspiration from Byzantine clothes. It opens along the shoulder. Alas, it was short lived, and met its untimely end on its first trip through the laundry, thanks to very not colorfast red trim (oops)
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2016 - Froggies In Love Sweatshirt: A commission. Client provided fabric and pattern - my job was just to sew. I am pleased with the frog placement on the front pockets, but this project was mostly an exercise in simply following the pattern instructions. (I'm modelling the hoodie)
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2014 - A Light-weight Coat: A gift for a friend. The banded trim is based loosely on Saami Garb (very loosely). He calls this his "compliment coat" because very time he wears is out, he gets compliments!
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2016 - And Another Froggy Sweatshirt: A commission. Which is exactly the same as the first froggy sweatshirt, but this time made out of this fun blue froggy fleece.
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2017 - A wedding dress for a lady from my church. She was older, marrying an older man, and didn't like the idea of a white dress, or of a dress she could never use again. So we designed together this very simple blue dress. The color is electric in real life, and she positively glowed. Theoretically the dress will be simple to hem shorter if she decides she'd like it to be a less formal party dress.
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2019 - Applique cloak from a larger costume commission, of a fanart character design. I seen to have no pictures of the rest of this outfit, but this skull-looking applique was definitely the most impressive part of the whole piece. It's made out of two kinds of poly suede and was both inclined to warp and tricky to pin through!
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2019 - Wedding dress for a contact from one of the schools I costume design for. This is quite a conventional wedding style, but the bride was having trouble finding things that were juuust simple enough for her preferences. We bought the loveliest silk and nice lace and had plenty of fittings to get this bodice fitted. This was probably the most complicated bodice engineering I've ever done, with boning and foam cups, and only one unplanned bust dart. It came out really well, but I can't say I'm excited to do more of this modern bust architecture again soon.