This is one of three designs submitted to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising's scholarship competition, completed in the first half of my senior year in high school. (No, I didn't win -- le sigh, but absolutely no surprise.) These pieces represented my first attempts at adapting a figure drawing to "fashion proportions", which are greatly exaggerated to emphasize certain body lines and make the figure appear much taller.

I no longer have the original for this piece; it remains in the school's files. This is the initial, smaller copy of the original image in black and white. The completed piece included fabric swatches, and was colored with liquid watercolor dyes.

I can't look at this now without spotting many, many problems with it, and it's definitely as impractial -- if not more -- as anything in the costume section. Since this isn't a professional portfolio site, and more an overview of the type of work I've done over the years, I'm not overly concerned about people seeing the many flaws in this piece.