CAGED CREATURES
This dress is made to address practices based in domesticity and give them new modern contexts that redefine femininity, the female form, and female craft practices. The dress itself both resembles and acts as a cage of fishnet. In combining the fishnet with a craft that has been referred to as dowdy and matronly, I am able to liberate myself through the caging process. I am able to subvert both the connotations of fishnet and women’s handicraft by creating a glamorous, upscale silhouette. Elegance in this piece serves as a warped middle ground between the so-called prudish and promiscuous. The lines between what I have made and my own body blur into an ensemble that fits into neither of its stereotypes.