DESIGN IN CLOTHING - STRUCTURAL AND DECORATIVE DESIGNS

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 DESIGNING IN CLOTHING


types of design in clothing



INTRODUCTION


application of design

  • A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process, or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product or process. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design

  • “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”― Charles Eames, American designer, architect, and filmmaker

  • Design is a visual look or a shape given to a certain object, in order to make it more attractive, make it more comfortable or to improve another characteristic

  • Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by culture and different trends, and has varied over time and place.

design in fashion
  • Design is concerned with how needs are identified, related and in some cases stimulated. It affects the ways in which our materials, energy, skills and other resources are employed to satisfy them fully, it calls upon enterprise and enthusiasm, inventiveness and ingenuity, scientific discovery and technical knowledge, power of visualization together with knowledge of human capabilities and aesthetic sensibility.

  • Creating or styling the appearance of a person with reference to clothing, accessories and beauty in corresponding with the personality of any individual is fashion designing.


DESIGNING A GARMENT 



  • The design: Different designers work in different ways. Some sketch their ideas on paper, others drape fabric on a dress stand, pinning, folding and tucking it until the idea for a garment emerges. A third method is to adapt their own patterns from previous seasons (this method can give continuity to a fashion studio's output).

  • For succesfully designing a garment or decorating, it is necessary to understand what constitutes a good design. The entire purpose of spending the scarce resources like time, effort and money or designing and decorating a garment is to make it attractive and pleasing to the eye.

  • A design can be defined as an arrangement of lines, shape, colours and texture, that create a visual image.Designing means moving from the state of randomness to the higher state of organization, to create a design or impression or to communicate an important / innovative idea. On the highest level of design is the careful and knowledgeable manipulation of art elements to produce an expressive personal idea.


There are two basic divisions of designing in the field of clothing. There are two divisions which are often inseparable, which can be defined in other words as factors influencing the design.


  1. Structural design

  2. Decorative design


STRUCTURAL DESIGN

structural design

  • When an objects structure is an integral part of the design is structural design. Structural design is those that are made wide the size for colour, texture of an object. For eg: weaving different kinds of weave as examples of structural design.

  • Structural design details in a dress include collar sleeves, yokes, pockets, skirts, position of seam lines etc.


The basic requirements of a good structural deign for clothing are as follows:

  • Structural design depends on the form and fabric. It is also created by the construction details as a design. It is inherit in all garments. Because it creates in construction details together including seams, collars, pockets and texture of the fabric.

  • Any detail that is an integral part of the garment is a structural design. It may be very simple or to be very elaborate simple or to be very elaborate.

  • Silhouette pleasingly related to the body structure and expressive of that time.

  • Design appropriate to its use and to the needs of the wearer.

  • Well proportion individual parts that offer unity with variation.

  • Character and individuality in line, form or texture.

  • It should be suited to the purpose

  • It should be simple.

  • It should be well proportion

  • It should be suited to the material with which it is made.

  • It is far more importance than decorative design because it is essential to every object or garment whereas decorative is the luxury of design.

DECORATIVE DESIGN

decorative garments

  • It is the surface enrichment of structural design any line, colour of material that has been applied on structural design for the purpose of adding a richer quality is a decorative design.

  • Beauty is the structure of design. Decorative design is only the luxury. e.g.: After weaving, when the impart design it is decorative: e.g.: Applique, embroidery, painting or any trimmings.


Requirements of Good Decorative Design:

  • It should be used in moderation

  • It should be placed at a structural points and should strengthen the shape of the object

  • The decorative design should be suitable for the material and for the type of service it must give.

  • There should be enough background space to give an effect of simplicity and dignity to design.

  • Surface pattern should cover the surface quietly


Types of Decorative Design:


They are 5 types of decorative design.

                                            a. Naturalistic

            b. Conventional

                                            c. Abstract

                                            d. Historic

                                            e. Geometric


A. NATURALISTIC DESIGN:


naturalistic design


    When objects from nature are selected and are reproduced exactly with photographic correction it is known as naturalistic design.

eg: Flowers, leaves, animals and landscape.


B. CONVENTIONAL DESIGN:

conventional design


    When an object from nature s adopted to suit the purpose of the object and be decorative the motif ceases to be naturalistic.

e.g. Fruits – Mango, flowers – hibiscus and animals or birds – Peacock




C. ABSTRACT DESIGN:




    Motif which does not have the nature as the source but the combination of lines producing irregular form i.e. not easily recognized. The modern art is an abstract design.

e.g. Wavy designs, ripples, designs with lines etc.



D. HISTORIC DESIGN:

historic design

  

  It refers to the famous monuments or building of historic importance.

 eg: Temple, Taj Mahal




E. GEOMETRIC DESIGN:


geometric design


    It is not derived from nature. It is derived from circles, rectangle, triangle, parallel lines and so on.





The basic requirements of a good decorative deign for clothing are as follows:


  • Applied and design should reinforced the basic design concept created in the construction of the garment.

  • This is achieved when the placement of trims is created to the structural design. Decorative design is very attractive when it is created in size and structure to the textile of the garment.


Suitable combination of textures includes:


combination of terxture


  • Fine embroidery for fine fabric

  • Ricrac for medium weight cotton

  • Sequence for shiny fine material .

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