30Dec14Tue Richard's Wear

 Here at right is the random shapes obi patches on the suit's pants leg (both sides with different random shapes).  Interestingly our research showed that truly randomly made shapes attracted attention faster and held it longer than pseudo-random shapes. Something in the mind like the breaking of conceptual regularity. To get true random shapes is easy.  You draw random-looking (and therefore not truly random) curves.  Then you write a little routine to randomly rotate and intersect them and choose bounded sections in a random order for a sequence, in this case, down the pants leg.   

 This is a mystery.  Kimono material makes the world's best silk shirts by a large margin.  So why aren't ALL shirts made of kimono material?????    It is hard to understand, given the feel of kimono silk is better than that of 600US$ stuff from stuffy dull tailor shops for the rich.  

 At right is the back of the suit jacket.   In this era I was putting contrasting colors on background fabrics like the orange on this sky blue background.  I disliked the result at the time and in recent years I no longer go for contrasting colors, instead going for colors that blend in.  

This is the front of the suit.  Notice the overlapping lapels--held by three buttons, one invisible in back.   Notice the patch on the lower right (reader viewpoint) put there just to keep things asymmetrical.   The sky blue is a stretch velvet (one of my favorite fabrics--so comfortable to wear and such a nice way of handling light).