Bias dress draping

Does wearing white on your wedding day feel way too foreign to even consider? We SO get it – why should you be limited to one shade for your big day, especially if it’s not a hue you usually lean towards? Obviously, we also love us an all-white ‘fit here at Hello May, but we […]

I have been studying draping on the stand at Morley for nearly a year now. Each term we focused on a different area – tops, skirts and dresses. Although we have done a cowl top, the course e…

Draped dress

DJ7: This bodice plays with the overlapping of contrast colours on either side of the body. It has a unified look to it because it is well balanced. The curves of the bias tape follows the sweet heart shape along the bust, which looks complex to sew. This technique qould probably require clipping done to the hem of the strips.

"The "bias-cut" is a technique used by designers for cutting clothing to utilize the greater stretch in the bias or diagonal direction of the fabric." Definition taken from Wikipedia. In layman's terms, cutting fabric on the diagonal causes it to have much more stretch which results in it accentuating body lines and curves and causing it to drape softly. For example, a full-skirted dress cut on the bias will hang more gracefully or a narrow dress will cling to the figure. Bias-cut garments…