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Summary: Bloomers can inspired fashion designers even if they look like costumes at first. Draw fashion for bloomers in this fashion illustration video series with a fashion designer.
Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing construction, etc. Laurel...read more
"Here is one of those things that you'll find yourself doing. You'll start drawing for a collection and you'll have an inspiration and you'll have ideas and if you just kind of let your mind go and just let your pencil go too, you might look back on it, like I do when I look at this and say what was I thinking. It's like a court jester outfit but then again you could take elements of it and adopt them in to something else and create something completely different with referencing what your inspiration actually is. This does look kind of renaissancey, costumey, I do realize that but maybe that's the whole point. So I have, I called them bloomers because for lack of a better word, they're basically shorts, knee length shorts that have a bow around the closure below the knee and they bunch out and they bloom out and they're a little bit puffy like harem pants without the lower crotch I guess. There's a time and a place for everything and your designs and when you're in your sketch book and when you're working on whatever is in your mind, I cannot say this enough and I know I say this every time you watch anything that I'm doing, go with your gut. It doesn't matter if it works out or not, just try it. You will not believe the feeling of freedom and just sheer and utter happiness. Just draw what, draw whatever you want, just let yourself go."
eHow Article: Fashion Design for Bloomers