Our Pearly Suit:The Finished Pieces

We finished the suit in just two days flat which was quite surprising as there were only three of us (Sian, Graham and myself) working on the suit and we thought it would have taken us alot longer. Here is our very own finished Pearly Kings and Queens suit: hat, jacket and trousers.

Making Our Pearly Suit: Part 2

Just a few more images showing day two of making the suit. After finishing up making all 1000 badges needed we got to work on putting them onto the suit:

Making Our Pearly Suit: Part 1

So having now been given all the necessary materials to make the badges as well as the suit itself we were able to make a start on putting our suit into production. First of all we had to make the badges for our suit. Below are a couple of photos showing our circle cutter, badge maker, roll of cut out crisp packet circles to make the badges with, your truly doing a bit of work and what the finished badges looked like.

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Pearly Kings and Queens: Winning!

I am pleased to say that our tutors were very impressed with our suit design as well as the thinking behind it and the creativity that went into it. Therefore my group was one of three groups to win the competition to have our suits put into production. From this week we will begin work on actually creating the suits and updates will be posted on the blog as production gets underway. Once the suit is completed it will be displayed in the University of Huddersfield Degree Show, the University of Huddersfield Library and hopefully the Vivienne Westwood Shop in Manchester. I say hopefully as negotiations are still underway. Updates will be posted.

Pearly Kings and Queens: Designing The Suit

Once we had a theme our group decided to combine the best features from suits that individuals in the group had come up with during concept development. After plenty of discussion we finally came up with a design everyone in the group felt happy with: (Please click to enlarge)

Pearly Kings and Queens: Getting A Theme

Once we had established what Pearly Kings and Queens were, we were then told that we would be creating our ow version of a Pearly suit as part of a class competition. There would be three winners of this competition who would get their suit design put into production and displayed at the University Degree Show following which they would be displayed in the University Library.

Unlike the Pearlies however,we would use badges, like the ones below, rather than buttons for our suits.


We were then given several themes for our suit designs. My group picked renewable energy.Following much discussion and debate decided that we wanted to go with two mini themes within the heading of renewable energy which were solar power and recycling. We decided to cover the solar power idea by spelling out the words solar power on the suit and using badges to create solar panels on the suit. To cover the recycling part we decided to make the badges out of recycled crisp packets.