TEERADEJ LO

        In the process of designing this costume, we decided to heavily design our costume based on the culture of the Thai aristocracy during the reign of Rama 5. The reason for this is because during that time a lot of European influence had come to Siam. These influence can be clearly reflected upon the clothing of the Thai aristocratic society of that time. Instead of wearing clothes that were traditionally wore for decades, people wore hard collar European dress that was common during the Victorian Era. Including many elements of fashion at the time such as the differences vividly colored hats and decoratives. It was a beautiful fusion between eastern and western culture, making it quite a memorable chapter of Thai’s fashion.

        When designing this we have a vision of a dress of something that is a sweet fusion between the lovely western dress and the prideful traditional Thai dress. Proudly, we decided to use this unique approach to make our costume looks standout and refreshing.

        Subsequently, 1102, have taken the clothing during the reign of Rama 5 and adapt it into our costume by various elements to enhance the character of this costume for the Thai Recycle Costume Competition. The primary color of our costume is red, which signify the independent of Thailand. The parasol of our costume is a tasteful combination of Victorian parasol and gold, the color represent in Thai word “Suwannaphum” or “Golden Land”. For the headdress, we use fascinator, a hat that been popular since the Renaissance, to signify the immortality of beauty. The focal part of the costume is Victorian Cosette and a red Thai Loincloth. Though the costume is heavily influenced it still remains steadfast in maintaining the idealism of Thai. We use trash bag as the loincloth. The corset is the combination of several box of milk stitches together. For the hat we use the paper holder of apple as the material. The shoes and the parasol is the used one that we brought from our house and repurpose it for this occasion. All of this will be sprayed painted for the desired color. And to top it all off, we added net and plastic bag to further decorate the dress into perfection.