FITTING :)

Fitting is necessary in costume design as not every actor has the same body shape and size, so we learned how to do a professional costume fitting.

I truly enjoyed doing this technique as it made me feel like an actual professional. It was, of course a bit uncomfortable as it was the first fitting I had ever done but I think I learned a lot and that is the most important thing to do. My model (I leave the link to her Tumblr here)

 was truly very helpful and patient as I am very new in all this so I appreciated the confidence within each other that we have develop through out this project (which has helped a lot). But anyway, after a long time of trying to fit the pattern pieced that I had previously pinned, I realised that I was doing it WRONG!!!!!!! I jumped the step of stitching my toile so I basically draped the corset onto my model. This turned out to be not as bad as I thought and created a better fitting. The down side was that some of my pattern pieces weren't symmetrical so I think I could have worked that out better with the stitch lines on. I think I have definitely learned my lesson and will pay attention better to the instructions. 

So the fitting experience overall was cool and it was easy to do, but it does take time to keep both sides as symmetrical as possible as well as it will look quite wrinkly as it doesn't have no boning at all (something I was getting pretty stressed about at the time).