After many prototypes, including setbacks when her horse Jester had surgery for a tumour, and she moved home, she finally created the perfect riding skirt. Each and every one is hand tailored by Odette in her Bristol based studio, where she cuts every pattern and individually sews each skirt.
Kimono are worn wrapped left side over right, something I discovered when a Japanese friend kindly informed me the (opposite) way mine was worn was only appropriate when dressing the dead for burial.
Clayden’s unique garment designs used folding, dipping, clamping, and discharging, as well as new, less orthodox, ways of decorating cloth, like the print motif she created by burning fabric in a sandwich toaster.
