SELF-DIRECTED BRIEF FOR MY BA DESIGN GRADUATE PROJECT:⠀
This project’s initial aim was to challenge the idea of preconceived dress codes, and explore new ways of garment re-construction and re-appropriation, as a way to question these dress assumptions and expectations. With this still in mind, and through further developing and researching the issues and questions surrounding this topic throughout the year, it is now a project focused on written and unwritten dress codes.
OUTCOME:
As a complete beginner to sewing and garment making, I started to develop a line of “Suit Socks”, re-using & re-constructing suits and other elements of formalwear to make socks. these suit socks became a transition object to aid the interchangeable shift of working from home to actual work again. Due to most people having to work from home, we all adapted our own “Working From Home” dress code or lack of dress code, due to the blurred lines and boundaries between a work and domestic environment.
I DESIGNED a zine to feature LAYERED photographs OF THE SUIT SOCKS, all taken at home, alludING to the idea of two differenT realities combined and overlapped, accompanied by quotes and some short stories people have shared with me about their Working From Home experiences, as well as some of my own. The last pages of the zine have blank spaces that can be filled in by the sock’s users.
A simple way for people to understand our current culture, fashion and behaviour, is ironically created, through a sock.
