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FAMILY ACTIVITY
BOOKLET
FRONTIERS
OF
FASHIONHOW MILITARY UNIFORM
INFLUENCES CIVILIAN FASHION
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Our new Frontiers of Fashion: Howmilitary uniform influences civilianfashion exhibition opens on 23 July andthis booklet has lots of uniform inspiredactivities to try at home.
Military uniform has influenced fashion for many
years. Clothing inspired by military uniform
includes: camouflage print, trench coats,
Wellingtons, bomber jackets, aviator
sunglasses, combat pants, shoulder
epaulettes, combat boots, dog tags,
Dr. Martens and white t-shirts amongst
many others! Military uniforms are
designed to be hard-wearing and practical
which makes them attractive to people outside the
armed forces. The cut and the colours of military
uniforms also inspire fashion trends which are
seen in the high street and possibly even in your
own wardrobe!
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Creative ChallengesLearn to draw cartoon aviator style
sunglasses or create your own pair of
sunglasses from paper or card! Aviator
sunglasses were originally developed in for
pilots to protect their eyes while flying!
Learn how to draw a bomber jacket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=H7dE88qRaKU Bomber jackets were
originally worn by Air Force pilots to
keep them warm and help them to move
easily!
https://how-to-draw-cartoons-
online.com/cartoon-sunglasses.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7dE88qRaKUhttps://how-to-draw-cartoons-online.com/cartoon-sunglasses.html
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Creative Challenges
Create a striped person! Use a large piece of
craft paper and ask someone to trace around
your outline in pencil before going over this
with a permanent or black marker. Fill the
space with horizontal or vertical stripes using
paint or markers. For a smaller version you
could draw an outline of yourself on A4 paper
and create a striped body.
Create your own striped piece of art using
paints, different coloured papers or magazines,
fabric, spaghetti, icing in different colours or
modelling clay.
Create a striped design on a pavement using
chalks!
Make striped bunting using paper and markers
or paint. Use different colours for your stripes
to create a pattern.
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Design Challenge
Design your own Wellington boots using the
outline below to get you started. You could redraw
a Wellington shape, enlarge it and create your own
patterns. Wellingtons were named after the Duke
of Wellington who was in the British Army!
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Did You Know?
Striped sailor shirts, or Breton stripes, came
from the French Navy?
The shirt became the uniform of the French Navy
in 1858 and was known as ‘tricot rayé' (striped
knit). The shirts stripes meant that if anyone fell
overboard, they would be easily spotted in the
water. French designer Coco Chanel was so
inspired by the sailors’ uniform that she included
stripes in her 1917 nautical collection. Breton
stripes were worn in Hollywood movies from the
1950s and are now seen everywhere.
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Creative Challenges
Create your own paper person wearing a
Try some retro craft and make a soldier doll from
paper or card! Design a uniform with tabs so that
they can wear it. Think about what you might like to
wear if you were in the military. This might include
combat trousers, boots, t-shirt and a hat.
Design a military tabard (short coat) either for you or
a toy using paper or fabric. Remember to cut a
scooped neck so that the tabard will go over your
head!
Create your own cool camouflage pattern.
Camouflage yourself at home and post it on
Instagram, Twitter or Facebook with the hashtag
#FoF. Remember to make your post public so that we
can see it! Maybe you’re blending in with the
wallpaper, a bookshelf or are camouflaged in the
garden!
military uniform. Use this example for
inspiration.
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Creative Challenges
Design your own epaulettes from either cardboard or
fabric. To make using cardboard, sketch your epaulette
shape and then cut out, paint or colour them. Glue on
other accessories such as buttons or tassels.
Design and make a cap badge from felt, fabric, or
paper. Think carefully about what symbols to choose
that reflect you or your personality.
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Did you know?Cap badges were issued to everyone with an
army uniform from the First World War so
they could be identified instantly including
their rank or regiment.
The Duke of Cornwall's Light
Infantry cap badge shows a bugle
as they were used to give orders on
and off the battlefield. Epaulettes are
ornamental shoulder pieces or decoration used
to show rank in the armed forces. Look at the
fancy epaulettes shown in the photo below.
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Natural Plant Dyeing
Explore natural plant dyes by dyeing a t-shirt or
fabric with used coffee grounds, tea bags, onion
skins, avocado skins, blackberries, blueberries, red
cabbage, beetroot or turmeric powder. These all
make good dyes. Make sure to ask for help from a
responsible adult. Wear gloves to cut up the
vegetable or fruit into small pieces. Put into an old
pan and pour in twice the amount of water as your
dye ingredients. Bring to the boil and then simmer
for at least an hour stirring occasionally. Strain out
bits using a sieve or colander and return the
coloured liquid to the pan. Once cooled
completely, strain the liquid into containers.
Soak your fabric in a fixative first as this will help it
set. For a berry- based dye, mix one-part salt to
sixteen parts water to make a fixative. For
vegetable-based dyes, mix one-part vinegar to four
parts water. Boil the fabric in the mixture and rinse
it out in cold water. Put the wet fabric in the dye
pan until you get the colour you want. When it’s
ready, wash your fabric separately in cold water and
dry naturally.
Fabric preparation
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Did you know?Red was the colour chosen for the Redcoats of
British soldiers partly because the dye was
cheap? They were coloured with a dye from the
root of the madder plant, which grew in
England. Madder has been used as vegetable
red dye for leather, wool, cotton and silk for
hundreds of years.
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