the costume im wanting to make is the American civil war costume. its 18th and i wanted to do a war costume abecause i thought it would look cool. im obviously not just going to coppy the war uniform, im going to put my own trist and style to it. iv started off my looking at the uniform and doing some designs of my own.

 

as the project is a paper project i thought id look into artists that use paper in costume and wigs as part of the project is for the wig to be part of a character relating to a Rakes progress or person from the 18th century, i found some artists work i like, Susan Cutts and Isabelle de Borchgrave. Isabelle makes Victorian dresses out of paper and prints the patterns on. 

 

 

I looked through the internet for 18th century wigs and found some images that gave me an idea of what they looked like.

 Wig Making
we started wig making as a project relating to the work we are doing on a rakes progress, the project is a paper project so its all made from paper. i started off with raping a plastic bag around a manikin then taping it up to make the bass of the wig. I then rolled up some bubble rap and taped it to the rim for the big side bits, i cut out loads of thin strips of paper and curled it with scissors and taped them on.