High Neck Blouse: cotton lace knit, 2012

Here's to a revolution in terminology: Gazelle neck? Yes! (With all due respect to turtles.)

To make a blouse with a Victorian high collar began with a previously drafted pattern for a blouse with a yoke. Replaced the yoke in the pattern and raised the scoop neckline to accommodate the collar. The fabric is a knitted cotton lace which doesn't stretch. Therefore, the collar required an opening. (Were it a stretch knit it could be pulled on.) Sorting through a small stash of buttons found an imitation mother of pearl shank button and three small flat buttons for the back closure.

Hum, 5" is a very high collar! It is perhaps more giraffe than gazelle. Modified the pattern, lowering it to 4". (Photograph shows the 5" version.)

Detail: fabric

Detail: back buttons

Gazelle Neck Blouse

Slow Style

Slow Style is an ongoing project by Sarah Kate Beaumont who since 2008 has designed and crafted every piece of her wardrobe. She has not purchased clothing since the project began.

Combining art and craftsmanship Beaumont’s project embraces individual style and sustainability. It seeks to empower others to question assumptions of consumerism with its inherent cycle of acquisition and disposal, and as an alternative, to explore self-reliance in our shared ecosystem.

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