This project explores how to use concatenated shapes as a way of creating inconstant garment constructions. The process starts wide by both testing chains, stitching and knots. But narrows down along the way to only focus on linked shapes without the use of stitches or glue. Different materials and shapes is tested to find a construction that not only hold together but also gives the user playfulness and the opportunity to easily change their own garment. Various forms were tested to be linked together, such as circle, rectangle, square, but also asymmetrical shapes. A choice was made to only focus on the circle to make the design process as focused as possible. Different ways in how to link the circle was tested, different scales, materials and colours. However did this round shape reach the end of the road and the investiga- tion resulted limited. In order to bring the project forward was the circle put aside. The process continued instead with classic clothing design as the basis for the shapes. This shapes resulted in a better variety and stronger garment reference. It opens up for more ways of concatenating garments and textile opportunities that are not restricted by the technique. Pieces that can be assembled in different ways by the user gives the wearer the opportunity to change the expression without buying a new garment. The pieces are also easier to recycle when there is no seams, zippers or other trimmings.

Looking at defining factors of garment, means to look at garments that has the possibility to be reduced to a extent and would still be seen as a specific garment. So, which garments are we so familiar with, both visually and the meaning, to the extent that we only need a small amount of information in order to recognise and understand it? This work investigates defining factors in garments that would be enough to describe and recognise a certain type of garment. The aim of this work is to explore the use of details as a way to define a garment and to question our learnt knowledge and presumption of what we refer to as a certain type of garment. The work is built on the objectification of a garment and is explored through the methods of abstraction and reduction. The result from this investigation consists of physical examles and conclusions in regards to the approached methods and knowledge about archetypal garments. What is presentend in this thesis, is nine examples of how one could describe a garment. Not what is the right way, but an alternative of combinations and the use of details as a refernce to the original garment we have knowledge about.