London trimmings for buckles for bras. 10 Gold and 20 silver £17. Silver buckles go with more PVC colours than the gold buckles as well as the target market being more attracted to the shiny silver buckles. A lot of tasks were repitive as we actually made the products as a production line system.

Measurements for Caged Bras

 

Cut 18 x 26cm   

Cut 9 x 33cm      

Cut 9 x 43 cm

 

30/01/2020

Stuck crystals to rivets with no nail glue using tweasers. Crystalled all caged bras and blow dryer. Cur more pvc strips at longer lengths. 20 bras 9 crystals each - back crystals for rivets to make look more quality. Crystals must match bra colour

For more bra lengths (caged bras)

7 gold

5 silver

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31/01/2020

Finished crystalline mouth pieces

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Made drawings of caged bras and harness for future reference before they are sold. Basically a rough technical drawing with measurements.

cut out metres of PVC squares and rectangles for flowers using Sissix machine. PVC squares are put to at a time underneath a template and sandwiched between two thick plastic board. This is threaded through the Sissix machine, pulling it back before it reaches the other side. The flowers are poked though with the ore. Punched holes in flowers at number 2 setting on the hole puncher. All different colours of PVC flowers had to be hole punched in the centre. Accuracy is really important.

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02/02/2020 (Sunday)

Met at the studio at 9.00 am and helped take suticases and bags full of products from the studio to the event venue at Lam, Revolution. 

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03/02/2020

Monday - unpacking from the Lam market

 

Punching holes in flowers from friday

Organising flower boxes

Sorting hangers

Cutting more flowers, Cork flowers

Careful not to waste material 

 

04/02/2020

Wrote a list of pvc to cut

Dalston, searching for knickers to make new knickers from pvc to match outfits. Villanelle outfits. 

Went to Dalston to use the Little Workshop. To use the clipper cutter. Different pressures to use different knives, cut out visors, heart shapes, point moon shape and round moon shape out of cardboard for the peplum and shoulder part of the Villanelle set. Had to leave earlier because to cut the thin shapes out there was not the write board. Waste of money - time is really important. Extra £10 for the next time. New Cruella film coming out - cut shapes to use for cruella outfit like the Villanelle one.

Ada used the ‘knives,’ which were more like cookie cutters at the Little Workshop in Dalston to achieve the most accurate shapes which included, hearts, long rectangular strips at 2cm, 3cm and 5cm. Depending on what kind of board was underneath the press affected the edges of the PVC, if the PVC was rough it had to be snipped and filed back at the studio. 

 

05/02/2020

Filed shapes from Tuesday cutting session

If cut lines were not perfectly straight the PVC might only be used to cut flowers for embellishment on the Sissix machine. 

Cleaned shapes with wipes and kitchen towel so rivets would not rust and blow dried them to flatten them as it makes the plastic softer

Crystalline caged bra as Ada had to make it smaller by adding more hearts.

Cleaned neckline which a model got foundation on.

Changed over silver San and brown, rings and screws from clear pieces to black pieces as Ada sells some of her products in Maxs shop in Camden. Maxs shop only take black and red garments so to save material I swapped the silvers from other chokers and cuffs to black and straps and replaced them with gold pieces. Used the narrow silver plates for the gold pieces so they weren't as viewable.  Used screw driver. Rings.

 

06/02/2020

Made complete red and black cuffs for Maxs shop to go with Valentines day collection. Cut straps to length, Marked and punched holes. Punched one too many holes which we put spikes on instead which actually matched a red choker with spikes. Screwed on San and browns. placket goes on back screw into semi circles so was loose enough to thread through the rings. And then tightened both screws.

 

Finished at 12.

 

07/02/2020

Crystalled a clear harness with gold crystals that wasn't selling to make it sell better.

Went to the Little Workshop to cut straps. 

Finished Crystalling the harness

Filed shapes

Cut out photos for Maxs shop in Camden

 

11/02/2020

Filed straps from the little workshop all day. This task is repetitive so I learned to stay focused. Straps had to be soft enough to have on the skin

 

12/02/2020

Filed straps and shapes to make commissioned outfit for the Drag King Clay Tourist which consisted of yellow PVC and chains.

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13/02/2020

Filed more straps and shapes all day.

 

 

14/02/2020

Researched all different types of ears to sell at Easter on Etsy and at upcoming events. Researched high fashion head pieces and sculptures as well as basic bunny ears from Pinterest. Watched youtube tutorials on how to make them and drew templates. Discovered the differences between hand made pig ears, dog ears, bunny ears and cat ears. Also found a store competitor that sells harnessed ears.

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