Why am I attracted to parachute from a materials standpoint, which I always have to be thinking from of course as a textiles person : it is because of its translucency, how sheer would look on the body in relation to my interests in lingerie design, the potentials to subvert an otherwise industrial military material to a cheeky role revealing the body. {This in relation to the secretive practices of textiles making, which very few people know about these mysterious machines that make our clothes and what goes on behind the factory door.} Covert operations revealed.
A capsule collection by my brand Dimpl [ . ] [ . ] , and a tagging system I created for this soft launch inside the garments. Synthetic artifacts. The pattern and location of which parachute panel each garment came from is on each tag.
Joinery: using the drawstring structure I discovered joins together each individual square panel (this as a jumping off point, getting back to less/zero waste practices, but humbling myself and realizing I needed to build up my pattern drafting skills a lot first). The outer shell of the bubble skirt utilizes 2 parachute panels and drawstrings as side seams, no cutting. Others employ the paracord as waistband.
Experiments began by playing in the parachute. Patterned using a combination of Clo 3D and vintage garments in real life.
Covert operations revealed.