The Royal Flying Corps uniform is the standardized military uniform worn by members of the Royal Flying Corps during World War period. Because of their practical and functional purpose, lots of commonwealth air forces' uniforms are also designed by ba...
The Royal Flying Corps uniform is the standardized military uniform worn by members of the Royal Flying Corps during World War period. Because of their practical and functional purpose, lots of commonwealth air forces' uniforms are also designed by based on the Royal Air Force pattern. Later on, these revolutionary RFC uniforms are influenced on various of contemporary design development.
From the previous discussion, RFC uniforms are usually well blended into the commercial design because it has multiple design purposes such as it shows practical function and also significant accessory design as well.
In this research, first, I made a significant time frame such as World War period will be the important part of my research. Furthermore, in my research, I would like to discuss on different characteristic designs techniques related to the historical documents, photographs, article and classifies archive data from history of military uniform.
RFC uniforms has a basic set to wear such as it has basic double jackets and pants. In occasionally, people can overlap their basic form of suit with other types of layers. Overall shape of the uniform shows that linear shapes of clothing and also it contains active silhouette.
The Ike jacket is the most basic form of military uniform. The jacket classified into three different types of category such as great coat, flying coat and trench coat. The jacket silhouette appears as long coat. Also, it contains major type of decorative function such as the jacket has metal buttons, flap pockets with inverted pleats, epaulet, and belts. In additionally, the leather belt and emblem accessories represents artistic and aesthetical part of cloth design.
The aspects of the war changed, the main color of the uniforms also changed to khaki color. The color of Khaki uses as camouflage color during the battle. Furthermore, the navy as the support color for the uniform. The gold has been used as the highlight color for the metal button and red, blue and white for using RFC traditional mark as well.
Not only the form and color pallette, the RFC uniform brought excellent materials for clothes. For example, they used a gabardine which is good for water proof purpose and leather goods that provides excellent protection against the wind. Also, they used a wool for the warmth and temperature for human. At last, they used a cotton for the permeability.
Through my theoretical research, I would like to re-created and re-produced women's clothes combined with RFC uniform design. During my research, I created eight different women's clothes and three belts. The design works are focused on practical and functional concepts from RFC uniforms.
First, the RFC uniform has the orthopedic symbolic properties as the uniform design. The history confirmed that the classic style of uniform can be used as timelessness design for fashion industry. In addition, the classical figure of military uniforms suitable for contemporary fashion style as well.
Second, because of the functional reasons, I transform the masculine aspect of the design turning into the female design pattern. Especially, I converted the major design sources from the RFC uniform such as flap pocket, double breasted buttons, and epaulet. According to my research, it shows that the RFC uniform can transform into the modern design and also it represents practical women's clothes.
Third, it shows that the detail elements of the RFC uniform can provide the casual motif for women's fashion. For example, using the different shapes and composition of the flap pockets, may give the various of design aspect for the women's fashion design.
Fourth, my design work shows that the RFC uniform's motif can give the multi-functional and satisfaction for the consumer. Because RFC uniform's elements can satisfy the decoration part of clothes and also it gives enhance diversity of design. Moreover, the cross coordination for the design products can able to improved the high value as a commodity and fashion market.
Fifth, the RFC uniform design allows us the high technological yet innovation military look for contemporary fashion culture. It maintains the elegance and also practically function from the new fashion materials.
As a result, RFC uniform gives us new fashion style and ideas for the designer. For example, the fashion design can be classical yet practical and also it can sensitive for people's life style as well. Through my study, I wish that the RFC uniform design explores the future of contemporary fashion initiative, brings together a multitude of fashion platforms and innovative perspectives from the cultural heritage industry.