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Summary: Find inspiration for bathing suit fashion design in history like the 1940s. Learn to draw 1940s style one-piece bathing suits from a fashion designer in this free fashion illustration video.
Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing construction, etc....read more
"This bathing suit is done more modest shape, more modest style. It, to me, is reminiscent of like a vintage bathing suit. 1940's inspired. Pictures of your grandma on the beach back, way, a long time ago when she didn't look like a grandma. That's what this makes me think of. And I have it. In the front it would just be completely plain. But the back is where you would have the detail. And the back would have the straps that cross over the back down to the level of the scoop. And the scoop could be in at any point in which you it. It could be down here and then you can have the straps all the way like that. Or the scoop could be up high and you could have the straps just v'd. The possibilities are seriously endless and you just. I could rant and drone on and on and on. But I wanted mind about mid back. And then with the hem, or the leg holes around the actual, natural butt cheek line, provided the butt cheek doesn't hang down to the knees. That would be the natural line. And there you go."
eHow Article: Bathing Suit Fashion Design: 1940s Style