Two students from Gort have taken top awards at a national sustainable fashion competition.
Alice Edge and Lilleah Stuart from Gort Community School won 'Best Tailoring' at the Relove Fashion Sustainable Fashion Awards in Dublin.
Their outfit, fashioned from various materials including scraped wood and bicycle spokes, was inspired by the Victorian era.
This vintage look was created by Alice Edge and Lilleah Stuart from Gort Community School, Galway County Council.
🧵 The Inspiration🧵
Created from items sourced in charity shops and a donation of unwanted fabric from a family friend, this outfit was inspired by the Victorian era, a time where women’s fashion became the site of political change, playing a major role in the suffragette movement. The trousers were inspired by women’s cycling britches, a design that allowed women to move about freely, rejecting the constricting corsets and crinolines of previous era’s. Using a pattern book from the 1890s as a reference, the group created their own patterns for both the ‘scrousers’ and the waistcoat, adapting them for a more modern, contemporary look.
🧵 Design & Creation 🧵
The two tone ‘scrousers’ have a gathered detail at the front and a topstitched waistband feature, the buttonholes were hand stitched and the buttons were salvaged from an unwanted shirt.
The waistcoat is lined with a beautiful owl fabric salvaged from an unwanted dress, which is hand stitched to the outer fabric in a nod to Victorian construction techniques.
The button loops were handmade using a japanese lace making technique and create a beautiful design feature on the waistcoat. The shirt was customised with a band of the same fabric used for the waistcoat lining, appliqued to the collar.
