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An Online Extra to Threads Magazine Threads Design Challenge VI Lois Ericson, Nancy Shriber, and Mac Berg rise to the challenge: a Scrabble-themed transformable outfit in yellow, blue, and brown! by the Threads editors
The rules of the game... "Our theme is letters, words, and wordplay, so get ready to have fun," we wrote to the three participants who agreed to join our challenge. "Use your initials in unusual ways -- no typical monograms -- as you meet the criteria of the following fictional scenario: "The International Scrabble Association is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the word game. Because you're a third cousin of Alfred Mosher Butts, the game's inventor, you're invited to the gala celebration in Paris. Cousin Alfred knows of your reputation as a designer with great sewing skills and sense of whimsy and imagination in solving a wardrobe puzzle. He looks forward to seeing just how creative you can be with his game. "You'll need to design a daytime business outfit, including a hat and bag, which, needless to say, will be closely studied by all those Scrabble aficionados, curious to see how you've worked letters and words into your ensemble. After lunch, you'll spend the afternoon on a personal tour of the workrooms at Chanel. (Coco Chanel is famous for using her initials, by the way.) In order to stay as long as possible at Chanel, you decide to design your outfit for the evening cocktail event so that it's contained within your daytime outfit; any extra pieces must be self-stored in handbags, pockets, hats, etc. This way, if you run late, you can change your outfit on the Paris Metro in a subway car." ...and the resulting garments We asked Lois Ericson, Mac Berg, and Nancy Shriber to design in their signature styles, to use lots of words and letters, and to keep a journal recording their creative process. Each designer chose one additional fabric to use and received $35 for notions, trims, or aspirin.
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