Friends, and classmates, who had seen my work have been saying… why the hell are you putting those holes on the penis etc etc. so i think i want to make a post(: here, right now) that shows a little bit more of the stuff i've been looking at. I won't be able to scan anything in from my folio at this stage.. so.. in one small sentence, my work is about menswear that reveals without purpose..
if i'm to elaborate.. revealing without purpose in the same way women's wear reveals, for adornment, on any occasions, particularly the everyday. A man will need a reason to dress in a revealing manner… and so i have been challenging that! to extremes!
as you can read, this is for week 5 of the stretch generic investigation, obviously i couldn't solely focus on men's wear because some garments are simply designed for women only… (obviously sexism ahhaha)
This was sort of my first step towards looking at the removal of fabrics in un-conventional places.. only to cover with a sheer or net fabric.. The idea was a bit tongue in cheek.. if the body parts are still covered by fabric, then is the body still covered, thus decent?!
The result.. a very revealing outfit for a women… Figured if men could show nipple women could too… and if women can do things that men do even more out-rageously, then they can also reveal their lower body parts as well…
These were the leggings i created for the generic investigation.. another additive to the base foundation for the current project… The idea, what was supposed to be the most important part of the garment was the cups that sat inside the net leggings. The cups that pertruded, i suppose, although it wasn't my original intention, looked like erections coming from the knees… which yeah its really funny, ha ha, sex on the mind jack… shut-up. But the skeletal shape was what i really liked about the garment, Also the fact that the pattern was altered only minutely, so the patterns still offer full cover. but you can clearly seen any of the wearers under-garments while these are made in net with the elastic underneath. ALso, the important fact that leggings are competely not conventionally made for men to wear..
this is a toile from my Stretch Project, which has now gone on to be encorportated within the "y" front body suit.. i saw, in the leggings for men, the biggest issue being the penis. Men have big ego problems with their penis, its size and it being seen en masse by the public. What better way to hide something than to cover it with a similar shape on grandeur scale.
See…
Anyway, the idea of this codpiece grew, i think its a very good way of covering the penis bulge, if the fabric is not of sheer or translucent/totally transparent character! also offers extra leg movement, obviously that means comfort. The First steps to a progressive change in fashions is an offering of comfort to a restricted part of dress. You could reflect upon the early 20th century removal of the corset within dresses… Corsets are still around these days, (they're very beautiful when done well as well) but the it seems that function, movement and comfort overruled this. Can changes in menswear also be made? Women once covered as much as men do (in the everyday) now… There will always be un-acceptance, in the early stages of drastic change.
