Tuxedo Vests in Fashion Design

Series Summary

Why design fashion for models? According to J.P. Prewitt, famous hand model of Bulova fame, models are genetically constructed to become something great: “They’re in peak physical condition. They can gain entry to the most secure places in the world. And most important of all, models don’t think for themselves. They do as their told.” It seems only natural for mothers to want their girls designing fashion and accessories for these legendary lookers. Because of the popularity of shows like "Project Runway," fashion design has become a potential career readily consumed by our tweenagers and teenie-boppers. In this free fashion illustration video series, professional fashion designer Laurel Armstrong teaches you starting points for designing vests. Vests can take inspiration from across the fashion board. Matadors, tuxedos, cowboys, nightgowns; all these can supply a hip vest outline or design. Laurel offers tips for incorporating a variety of styles into your vest designs, offers advice on drawing illustrations that capture the design in your mind and provides encouragement and inspiration for your own designing and ideas.

Video Transcript

"The next set of things that I going to try to do is drawing vests. I bet you never thought there could never be so many vest variations. If you're not into watching fashion that much and you want to learn, yes, there's a lot of variations of vests. What a vest means is that's it's a sleeveless garment that covers part of the body, I don't really know what a vest is, but it's not a very good definition, but it doesn't matter, you know what a vest is, I won't define it for you. The first one I'm going to show you how to draw is a tuxedo inspired vest. That means, that as I've shown here, it has a lapel, it has a border, and the border simply, if it is a tuxedo, is going to be a satin, as opposed to the matte finish as the rest of the garment. A tuxedo inspired vest, well, the satin doesn't have to be black, though, remember, think outside the box. I'm showing you the basics. You want to make sure that with vests, to save yourself time, if you draw a ton of them, fold your croquis, your drawing in half, draw half on one side, if this is from, if you're trying to do it even on both sides, draw half on one side and then draw the other half, trace the other half and then draw it on the other side, it's just easy to do, that's if it's symmetric on both sides but I've only shown half because the other half is exactly the same you just draw the same thing again even it's in a different angle, just for your, for your knowledge, I didn't only just draw half, the other half's the same."