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Doll Fashion Design
Hi all, I'm starting this new thread for projects related to fashion design for my doll. My doll has been with me for about 4 months now. She is short with a small waist, wide hips and large breasts. For this reason, off-the-rack clothes do not fit her well. The two main problems are (1) bottoms that fit over her hips have a lot of slack in the waist. This is even a problem with panties. (2) tops don't fit well because her breasts pull the front of the garment forward stretching at the arm holes. This produces a very undesirable stretched look. I believe this thread will have wider interest in this community because many dolls have both large breasts and small waists and so have these same problems. Initially I thought it would be easy to do clothing alterations to make garments fit, but that turns out to be quite difficult in many cases, especially with tops. And so I believe I will have better results if I just make garments from scratch. Another problem is that garments that do fit are quite difficult and time consuming to get on and off my doll. And so I think if I design my own clothing I can come up with ways to make taking them on and off much easier - methods that can be applied to doll clothing that would never be applied to clothing for humans.
FUTURE CONTENT:
I'll be posting fashion design projects with an emphasis on the process. I'm going to try to post photos and descriptive text from design to finished garment.
ABOUT ME:
I'm not a fashion designer but I have a general background in art and design. I'm specifically good at 3D design and thinking in 3D which I hope will help me. I've got a consumer sewing machine and I'm starting to get comfortable with it.
Wish me luck! Also, everyone else is welcome to post their doll fashion design projects in my thread as well.
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So now at this point I've cut out the posterboard panel templates and taped them on my denim fabric. I've traced them on the denim with ballpoint pen. That gives me the outline of the panels plus seam allowance. Then I take them out, cut out the centers with an X-acto knife place the rings back on the denim, and trace the interior. That gives me the contour of the original panels (without the seam allowance). Then I cut out the denim pieces and start pinning some of them to begin to sew seams.
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Hi Poppy, yeah I'm excited about finishing the shorts too. So putting them on is one area where I think I can improve doll clothes vs. "human clothes." My plan is for the front zipper and button to be fake / non-functional. Then she will put on her shorts by sticking her right leg through a single right leg hole, pulling them up, and then they will velcro at the hip on the left side. Much easier than putting on human shorts! (if it works and if they fit - haha).
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Thanks so much, I appreciate it! Hopefully it turns out ok. In any case it will be a learning experience.Stocking_Hunter wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:48 am There are some definite skillz playing in this thread.
Thank you. No I'm just using regular denim. It has a slight stretch, but not very much. It's not like spandex or whatever "jeggings" fabric is. I've been told by experienced sewers that stretch fabric is difficult to work with and the cheap consumer sewing machines don't like it very much. But I'd like to make a few stretch fabric projects when I become more skilled.Out_Of_Sync wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 7:56 am Cool project! Are you using a fabric with a good bit of stretch?
Congrats on your doll order! Hope she arrives to you soon and safely. Oh well I have done some 3D modeling but there's no computers involved here. All analog tools and done by hand. About the 3D: I was just saying its useful to be able to visualize and think in 3D - to understand how fabric will deform and wrap around 3D forms. I look forward to seeing the looks you create for your doll!Raviolin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 9:26 am Can't wait to see the result, but it seems off to a good start so far! I myself have a lot of customisation ideas for my "soon to be delivered" first girl, also coming from an artistic background (2d animation & videogames), I can't help with the flow of ideas coming. Unlike you I'm an absolute noob in CAD or Blender so that would be my learning curve to start printing custom stuff haha
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it is so nice you can make own short trouser for your doll!
You are so good.
It looks so very tight, but velcro will make easier putting on.
I like it very much^^
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Very interesting method. I can't wait to see the shorts on your doll.
You might be interested in Slayers's threads. He has made particularly successful modifications of clothes, which seem to be tailor-made for his dolls.
His threads aren't easy to spot (he does one per shoot, there are 100 in all! ). I put a link for the first, then just click on the name of Slayers, a window opens and at the bottom you can click to access all his topics.
viewtopic.php?p=2176717#p2176717
Saaskiya, my beautiful gift (Zelex GE04) : viewtopic.php?t=154462
Trixie came to me (Funwest Dolls Trixie) : viewtopic.php?t=155900
Eurydice, a nice surprise (Elsa Babe RHC019)
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Thank you, TaeYeon. But no, I am just a beginner and I have a lot to learn. I am going to keep trying to improve and see what I can make.
Hey thank you for this link, I appreciate it, ok I'm going to check this out in a bit. I've been looking for other doll clothing designers.
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Also in these progress shots you can see I'm cutting slits or notches in areas of the curved panels. That's so I can fold the seam borders over and sew them without the fabric deforming too badly. My sewing machine is not happy when it has to sew several layers of denim and sometimes gets stuck. The back area with that V-shape was difficult because it was the intersection of 4 different panels.