After too many returns and disappointed reviews for their plus-size styles (if those sizes were even offered yet), Tradlands reached out to Alice Alexander to figure out what was going wrong with their grading, so they could confidently extend sizes in more styles. Love to see it! For a couple seasons now, I've helped by re-adapting a handful of knit and woven styles for the upper half of their size chart, to great success! Here’s a little reel of a fitting (made by the bright hot star Sofia Warren).
Proud to say that I worked on their initial styles in 2017 before Grant Blvd launched. Designing upcycled styles that could be repeated with different shirts as the material AND offered in a decent range of sizes was a really fun challenge.
From a blurry scan of a vintage fabric, I recreated this print for the client to have printed digitally for a film costume. To keep the hand drawn look, I traced the elements of the original by hand, then cleaned up, colored, and repeated that image in Adobe Illustrator.
The upper half of this image is the scan of the original fabric. The final vector image is the lower half.
Hand-traced repeat, because "image trace" has a hard time with blurry images.
A Set of Custom Bridesmaid Dresses
These dresses, I made when I was fresh out of school in Richmond, for a wedding in North Carolina. They're made of cotton sateen and silk/cotton voile. Long-distance measuring and fitting was a challenge (over Skype), but it worked out nicely and was good practice for all the Zoom measuring sessions that we offer customers at Alice Alexander since selling online-only.