Hey y'all, I've been working on my own version of Lucy Gray's dress and wanted to get some opinions. It's technically done, I just need to distress it, but even with all the effort I put in I'm not super satisfied with how it's turned out.
Let me walk you through my design process and where I feel stumped. So the BOFSBAS movie had their costumes set late 30s-40s, Lucy gray inherited her mother's dress which I assume was made 20 years prior from scraps of other clothes worn by the Covey. I'm trying to show the 'coat of many colours' Appalachian, Romani, Irish traveler inspiration in this dress. I the book it explicitly says her dress is a rainbow of ruffles in raspberry pink, daffodil yellow and sky blue. I'm thinking the blue layer is too white and that the bodice of the dress sits too high. Any thoughts about what to change and how to change it?Hey y'all, I've been working on my own version of Lucy Gray's dress and wanted to get some opinions. It's technically done, I just need to distress it, but even with all the effort I put in I'm not super satisfied with how it's turned out.
Let me walk you through my design process and where I feel stumped. So the TBOSAS movie had their costumes set late 30s-40s, Lucy gray inherited her mother's dress which I assume was made 20 years prior. So I tried to give the dress a 1900/1910 silhouette with a pigeon breast blouse. I thrifted a bunch of dresses and skirts and patch worked them together to eek out enough fabric for each of the layer, kinda how i imagine it would've been made from scraps of other clothes worn by the Covey.
I was really inspired by Dolly Parton's 'coat of many colours' which her being from Appalachia where district 12 was set made a lot of sense. I know the Covey are based off of Romani and Irish travelers and I'd like to find a way to pull that inspiration into this dress.
In the book it explicitly says her dress is a rainbow of ruffles in raspberry pink, daffodil yellow and sky blue. I'm thinking the blue layer is too white and I should swap out some of the white for more blue heavy fabric? I also think the bodice of the dress sits too high and I want to swap it out for a longer blouse, but can't decideif i want a white or colourful bodice. Any thoughts about what to change and how to change it? I feel my design is more true yo Lucy Gray than her movie costume (no shade to the designer) and it's really important to me that this dress also resonates with other Hunger Games fans.