Great British Sewing Bee

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Mia wearing last season Gyles Brandreth! He has made so much money from that sweater design. Princess Diana wore it too.

Loved Aasma’s dress. Worthy of garment of the week. The rest of the designs left me cold this week. It’s funny how things change. I would have put money on Lizzie lasting longer than Tony but she had a mare this week.

Goes off to look at ages.
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So I would have put Fauve at 34, she’s 26. And Lizzie at 57, she’s 49. Sewing ages people, all that squinting.
 
CarmenGhia said:
When they started talking about '90s icons for the transormation challenge, I was hoping someone would do something based on Wolf from Gladiators.
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I'd be hopeless at thinking these things up on the spot!

FatherJackHackett said:
Asmaa's dress was immense
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I loved that dress, it seems alot more complicated than the others to make too.

unidentified said:
Broke my heart when she spoke about her link to her mum. I think because I’ve lost my mum too.
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Sorry about your mum. I lost mine recently too and she taught me to see as well so it hit close to home too.
 
Some of these models are not very good at modelling the clothes to their best advantage. I know we are all shapes and sizes but it isn’t a level playing field to show off the clothes - Tony’s model was too big for that style of dress and her posture was terrible. When I saw that design of Tony’s I just thought, that is not flattering, but he was not designing for a fuller figured woman. Aasma’s model was very slim and showed off the dress to perfection.

I am probably going to cop some flak for this, you are fat shaming etc - but the models should all be a similar size to make the showing off of the clothes more equalised.
 
House of Tea said:
Some of these models are not very good at modelling the clothes to their best advantage. I know we are all shapes and sizes but it isn’t a level playing field to show off the clothes - Tony’s model was too big for that style of dress and her posture was terrible. When I saw that design of Tony’s I just thought, that is not flattering, but he was not designing for a fuller figured woman. Aasma’s model was very slim and showed off the dress to perfection.

I am probably going to cop some flak for this, you are fat shaming etc - but the models should all be a similar size to make the showing off of the clothes more equalised.
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I don’t even think it was just that. The challenge was 90’s. The 90’s was ‘heroine chic’ era. It was where everyone aspired to be skin and bone. Difficult to pull that look off on a plus size model and I’m saying that as a fat person
 
House of Tea said:
I am probably going to cop some flak for this, you are fat shaming etc - but the models should all be a similar size to make the showing off of the clothes more equalised.
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I agree. I think have different body types each week because it shows how versatile the sewers are better. I get the feeling they pick their own model which is an advantage if you can pick one the same size as the clothes you're used to making.
 
I wonder if the contestants have to submit all their weekly designs for the made-to-measure ahead of time - and so before they know who their model is?
Otherwise I think that was a poor design choice from Tony. I also happened to dislike the design and aside from the black/gold didn’t feel very 90s to me.

Vicki had a larger model and managed to fit to her size although I also disliked that dress. You could see the difference in how the models showed off the dresses though, agree Tony’s had terrible posture and also needed better underwear for that dress.
 
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