I have been making paper dolls since I was a little.  I really enjoy fashion, textiles and history.  I put them all together to create this weekly class!  Every week I will present a little bit about a time in history where fashion changed.  I will talk about fabric, style and who wore what!  

All of our courses are Learner-Led so if you take us down a different path during our discussions, it is very welcome. 

We will experiment in our drawing either incorporating ideas into modern use or exploring how to draw the actual clothing.  I will provide a basic body form template that will be posted in the classroom and can be used to trace out and draw over much like a paper doll.  If you like, I can create paperdolls or you can and we can use those as well! 

Every week we can show what we have been working on.  
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I will choose from one of these topics each week: 
Sheepskin to woven: Mesopotamia and early woven fabric
Walk like an Egyptian.
Loincloths to kalasiris Let's go Greek! Chlamys and olive leaves
Fight like a Celt! Let's explore the Celtic clothing heritage!
Busy like a Byzantine. Linen, wool or silk? How the Silk Road changed what people wanted to wear.
 Let's get Medieval. Bug Out!  Exploring colour and how the cochineal changed everything when brought to Europe from Latin America.
Perchance the poulaine?  Shoes in the 14th Century.  Headgear and Kirtles; what you don't leave the house without in the 1300's. 
The Italian Renaissance: frills and fabric fabric fabric! Baroque and Rococo period: rebellion through dress.  Puritans or Opulence?
Hustle and Bustle in the 1800's and the explosion of change! 
American Revolution, female fashion freedom in the 1800's. 
East Asia to the 1900's, beautifully draping silk, the ao dai of Vietnam, hanbok of Korea, indigo dyes of Japan, Mongol headdresses. 
When women stepped out in trousers; rebelling in style.  Bloomers, boiler suits, knickerbockers, jeans and capri pants "Oh My!"
Men's fashion seems to stay the same but there's some interesting features that change in response to historical events. 
Runway or High fashion trickling down to street fashion. Street fashion trickling up to Runway or High Fashion.
Space clothes!  Zero Gravity, Moon clothes, what to wear to Mars. Modern textile research.
First Nations and Native American Clothing Design, historical to modern. Often times First Nations/Native American art and design are relegated to the museum as a historical documentation but this leads us to believe that this culture has ended and is history not a living culture.  Let's explore some current designers!

Bring your drawing book, pencils, coloring tools, your iPad, whatever you want and we can draw some of these ideas as we talk and show each other our creations every week.  

*This course directly relates to B.C. Ministry of Education’s Curricular Core Competencies for Arts Education Grades 4-12 exploring/creating, reasoning/reflecting, communicating/documenting, and connecting/expanding.