Experimenting with fabric dyes 2 piece suit

I recently had Spair time on my hands to do some experimenting and tailoring so with this Spair time I decided to experiment with fabric dyes! This was really interesting and exciting cause I didn't know what the final result would be  that I would get out of this experiment luckily I got a unusual 2 peice suit that I love not only because it's unique and no one else has it but because my experiment turned out so well the 2 peice suit was shorts and a jacket that I will post up shortly...

Firstly I got soft white dutches satin this worked really well with the dyes and give it that more expensive professional look with the silk look on the fabric. Once I had the fabric I decided what I wanted to make out of this and it was decided shorts and jacket, using my patterns of basic shorts and jacket I cut these out leaving me with just the pattern peices and plain material.

The next step was using the fabric dyes and testing on a sample peice of material all of the different dyes I was able to use I came to the chose of yellows oranges blues and torques. However I didn't just look at the dyes to be able to see the actual colors I wanted to use or even put them just on the material and decide I had to apply heat for their original colour to come up the colours I choose went onto the sample material as purples and browns that then turned into these really nice bright colours I decided to use once I had used the heat press.

Using the heat press... I turned it on and left it to heat up for 10 minuets I then placed a peice of paper big enough to cover my sample material and placed the sample on top of the paper to then place another peice of paper ontop of that.(this keeps the sample safe and avoids the material burning or steaming.)

Once I had decided on the fabric dyes I was going to use in this experiment I began to dye my shorts alls I needed for this was...

• paintbrush

•fabric dyes 

•water spray 

I picked up my first pattern and wet it with the water sprays this helped the fabric adapt to the material then using a paint brush I began to make my pattern using the fabric dyes I decided I just wanted a block print of the colours but I wanted the affect of the colours running into each other. Once I had painted the fabric dyes on over the sink surface I lifted the material up and let the dyes and water run this created a really nice affect on my suit. Then I did the same process as i used on my sample peice and applied a piece of paper big enough to sit under the pattern and on top of the pattern and I left this under the heat press till the time ran out. I continued this process throughout the pattern dying.

Once all my patterns where dyed I started to put the suit together here is a picture of how my suit turned out!!!!

  

I also added light blue pom poms to the suit... I loved doing this experiment can't wait to try it again 🎨📚✂️✏️📌📝

1950s rock and roll greasers

                               1950s rock and roll greasers 

The teenager’s I am researching are the rock and roll era of the 1950s I will find out about the music, fashion, films they liked and watched the stars of this era places they went and I will look at images to get a idea of what a average 150s teenager was like. The word Teenager was created in the 1950's due to the tremendous population of those in this age category and because teenagers started gaining more independence and freedoms. Teenagers were able to buy more things like food, clothes and music because of an increase in spending money. Teenagers were also becoming more independent in the type of music they preferred to listen to, no more listening to what their parents liked, teens flocked to the new music of the decade, which was rock and roll.

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        Music- (rock and roll artists)

·         Adolph Rickenbacker (1886-1976) was a German-American guitar manufacturer who in 1931 founded the Electro String Instrument Corporation. His company was the first in the United States to produce solid-bodied electric guitars.

·         Elvis Presley (1935-1977) was a working-class southerner who rose to fame in the 1950s as a rock and roll superstar. A memorial outside his childhood home proclaims, "Presley's career as a singer and entertainer redefined popular music."

·         Sam Phillips (1923-2003) was a record producer and owner of Sun Records. He is credited with scouting some of the first and most legendary rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. In 1986, he became one of the first people inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

·         Bill Haley (1925-1981) was an early rock and roll musician who, with his group Bill Haley & the Comets, helped popularize the genre in the '50s with hits such as "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" and "Rock Around the Clock," a song featured in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle.

·         Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) was an African-American rock musician who blew apart the rock scene with his mind-blowing stage performances, haunting vocals, and innovative guitar compositions. 

Films-1950s rock and roll era...

·         Rocking the blues (1955)

·         Rock Rock Rock  (1956)

·         Rock around the clock (1956)

·         Don’t knock the rock (1956)

·         Love me tender (1956)

·         Shake rattle and rock (1956)

·         Carnival rock (1958)

Film stars of the 1950s-

·         Marilyn Monroe

·         Paul Newman

·         Joanne Woodward

·         Sal Mineo

·         James Dean

·         Eva Marie saint

·         Elli warlatch

·         John Travolta

·         Olivia newton john

·         Pier angelie

Fashion of the 1950s rock and roll teenagers-

During the decade, the types of parentally approved and appropriate dress for teen boys consisted of loose-fitting slacks, an ironed shirt and tie, a sports jacket, and polished black or brown loafers. Haircuts were short and neat. Clean-cut preppy boys donned tan chinos, a type of pants, that ended just below the ankles, V-neck sweaters, and white buck shoes or Top-Siders, deck shoes. Their female equivalents wore saddle shoes, bobby socks, blouses with pleated skirts, or dirndl dresses, which featured lots of petticoats, and came sleeveless or with puffed sleeves. Favored hairstyles included the ponytail and bouffant, hair that was teased and combed up to stand high on a woman's head.

 The 1950s greaser/Rocking roll teenagers-

Teenage boys wore tight-fitting blue jeans and white T-shirts: an outfit that represented the essence of rock 'n' roll rebellion. Or they adapted the "greaser" look favoring tight T-shirts and dungarees, a type of jean, along with black leather jackets. Their hair was grown long, greased with Vaseline, and combed on both sides to extend beyond the back of the head.

Their girlfriends expressed themselves by wearing felt poodle skirts, which often featured such images as record players and musical notes attached to their fronts, or they wore short, tight skirts, stockings, tight blouses and sweaters, and an over-abundance of eye shadow and lipstick. While a preppy couple who was "going steady," or seriously dating, exchanged class rings or identification bracelets, a greaser girl instead put on her boyfriend's leather jacket.