Towards the end of the first week I was creating designs from the two shapes that I picked and from the pictures I took of the shapes on the mannequin.  I drew from the picture and then I created designs by enlarging, reducing, turning upside down the shapes on the croquis and doing as many variations as possible.  From these designs other designs would be inspired from the original design.
At the same time research for my contextual notebook began and i was looking for images from magazines, newspapers, articles or on the web of any fashion related pictures that in some way resembled my work.  For instance if the picture was of a garment that looked very similar to my shapes then that would be relevant to me and my contextual research.

The first picture below is of a page from my sketchbook showing a progression of designs from the original image and the other picture is showing a page from the contextual research showing images that i feel resemble the page from the sketchbook because the shapes are very similar in that both are sharp and pointy with severe angles.