Costume Silhouette Timeline

Sporting Fashion

In this module, I studied how women’s fashion shifted across a thirty-year period in the nineteenth century, using a shooting outfit from Sporting Fashion as the basis for reconstruction.

I developed the garment from the skin up, combining flat drafting with cutting on the stand. This allowed me to analyse how historical silhouettes were built, how movement was accommodated, and where structure was doing more work than decoration.  The project strengthened my understanding of period proportion, tailoring logic, and fabric behaviour. It also required ongoing problem-solving as I translated two-dimensional sources into a functional, wearable garment using historically informed methods.

This piece marks a turning point in my practice, where research, construction, and fit began working together as a single process rather than separate steps.