Wearable Arts | 28-8-19

Our school has something every 2 years. Its called 'Wearable Arts'. In this event we are given a theme for our costume and what we have to make. Past years the theme was 'Countries' and the part we had to make was a hat. This year the theme is 'Future with a West Coast flavour'. We also get to pick an aspect of the West Coast of New Zealand. Our theme is the rainforest. We’re going to make a ghillie suit sort of body with vines, flax, weaved flax, ferns, koru’s and other greenery. We’ll also be adding things in such as a waterfall coming off the shoulder and bouncing off rocks as well as the occasional flower and silver fern. For the back we will add a Māori chief cloak made from ferns that’s so long that it drapes along the catwalk. Here is a photo of our prototype.

I really hope that we could get at least in the top three on the day. Hope you do too!