What is it about?
Nowadays, the virtual technology is being widely applied in the area of clothing design and try-on. However, the possibilities of these technologies cover only the contemporary marketable clothes, while the insight in the aspect of historical costume is very limited. In this research, we developed the method that allows to reconstruct and do the virtual try-on of historical men’s suit consisting from four different garments—trousers, shirts, vest, and coat.
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Why is it important?
The method includes, on one hand, the analysis of pattern drafting systems, patterns construction, special means of bespoke tailoring that were popular in the history and, on the other hand, the way of its adapting and preparing to contemporary technologies of 2D and 3D design. The exploration was done with men’s suit and the patterns from the nineteenth century. We studied how the tailors took all measurements, the content of size charts including divisional, direct measurements, and its combination. To parameterize the historical patterns of men’s clothes, we created the schedule of special indexes. We developed the method how to identify the means of garment shaping by steam pressing, which are hiding in the patterns, and how to perform ones by darts. The preparation of historical patterns to virtual try-on was done by CAD. As example, the reconstruction of full-dress suite painted on the Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha’ portrait (1840) was done, and high adequacy between the historical prototype and the virtual suit has been proved.
Perspectives
The possible applications of developed method are different areas such as museum virtual exhibitions and performances; scientific classification considering two objects , 2D patterns and 3D garments; virtual reconstruction for organizing the virtual exhibitions; and contemporary design based on the historical prototypes. The application of developed method will allow to reconstruct the historical costume with the greatest precision and special features in 3D by using the historical patterns and published images. This method can help to save the lost information about the construction of historical costume and to enrich the professional treasure.
Dr Aleksei Moskvin
Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design
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This page is a summary of: Virtual Reconstruction of Historical Men’s Suit, Autex Research Journal, September 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/aut-2018-0001.
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