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Children’s Wear Senior Class: Fitting Fun

Helen’s dress muslin.

A couple weeks ago we had our fittings! It was difficult at times, for many of us had to make several adjustments to our muslin prototypes in order to get the best final fit for later.

The little girl we had for Size 5 was so patient, quiet, and sweet. We couldn’t ask for a better little model. Then there was a little Size 5 boy, another cutie, who was also sweet but got a little tired after awhile. Luckily not many of us were making garments for boys.

We also had a Size 10 girl, that only one student, Alyssa, needed. All the rest of us are doing Size 5 girl or boy and mainly girl

Here are a few photos from our fitting session with the adorable fit models.

Our little Size 5 model getting fitted by Jihaeng.

Size 5 Boy getting fitted for Chelsea’s tailored jacket.

Our Size 10 model getting ready to be fitted by Alyssa.

After our fitting, we all adjusted our patterns, tweaked some things, and once that was done we could begin cutting fabrics!

Here’s a preview of the fabrics I’ll be working with and my designs, along with the muslin prototype of my first design. Note that my second dress will be sleeveless (no it doesn’t have two different sleeves! I was trying out options.)

I have 3 garments total, a dark blue velveteen peplum jacket, a dark blue brocade dress, and a dusty blue cotton shift dress with gold lace applique. The first garment is strictly for Fashion Show and the other is for the Cotton Inc. design contest that all of us in Children’s Wear are required to participate.

At this point, pretty much all of us have began sewing something. It’s all coming together! Look out for my next post to see some garment progress! I will be documenting everyones work until show day. Stay tuned!

Children’s Wear Senior Class: What is it like being a Children’s Wear designer?

There’s so much beauty in being a Children’s Wear designer. It’s freeing, you can unleash your creativity without fear of it being unappreciated. People respond to your work with a happy expression of love and endearment, rather than a casual “nice” or a bland “interesting”. We put our work on display and it’s instant smiles from everyone.

We all chose Children’s Wear for different reasons. Be it the need to try something different, by chance, or like yours truly, who chose Children’s Wear because of a feeling of disillusionment with Women’s Wear, feeling that my designs were just too youthful in nature and my inspirations just did not interpret well into women’s clothing. I love whimsical, cute, fun, vintage, and alternative styles, many of which just weren’t fully accepted when I was still doing Women’s Wear for my associates degree. I think if I was doing that now, I would be very unhappy with it. But you know, that’s just my personal opinion. Don’t get me wrong, I do still love Women’s Wear and respect all who have the creativity for it!

Anyway, here we are, Senior Year 2013. It’s been a long way to getting here, but yet it seemed as though time flew by. It’s time for the Senior Show, and in Children’s Wear, the work is well underway.

We met our critic, Bonnie Young, on the second day of classes. She is a Children’s Wear designer herself. We showed our sketches, fabrics, and inspirations and she gave us all feedback. Afterward it was time for patternmaking and draping (I stick mainly to patternmaking, as I find it more efficient.) Slowly but surely we worked to see our garments start coming to life.

Then we began getting fabrics, shelling out the money we were all reluctant to spend, but eager to get some things we truly loved. I myself spend about $80 total on all my initial fabrics, which compared to some is nothing! Students, especially in other specializations, have spent hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Crazy huh?

This past Wednesday we had our first model fitting, and that’s where I’ll leave off. I’ll have photos on that in my next post.

Until then! Thanks for reading!

- Aria

Sorry for the delay on posts—BUT I GOT IN!

AND—its SPRING BREAK!!! Woohoo!

 

Also, I got into the BFA fashion show with my cotton dress! Here is my super cute model who told me, “I would TOTALLY buy this dress!” I decided I am going to make a matching doll outfit for her to put on her American Doll and carry down the runway! Cute, ehhh, ehhh?

 

 

Round 1- Both Looks!

The critics eliminations were this week, and both of my garments made it past the first round!!! I have quite a few things to do to make sure they are perfect this weekend. :-) Wednesday is judging for the actual fashion show and I couldn’t be more nervous! I made another video this week, woohoo! (Take a look at the entire classes garments!!!)

 

Hope you enjoy and more importantly…LAUGH!

 

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Celebrity Wannabe

I ran into Olivia Smith, a chicka who was walking around M&J Trimmings and asking people if she could film them for her film class she was taking. Understanding exactly where she was coming from, I volunteered right away! Here is her final product—stay tuned for me toward the end, stressfully looking for buttons!!! (Oh yea, I look a little bit like hobo!)

 

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You know you are best friends when…

….your professor tells you that you need to change your fabric when you are done with your dress and you critic is coming on Wednesday and you are taking a bunch of other classes and interning and you cry for like 4 hours because you are stressed and dancing like a doofus makes you feel better. —yes I know this is a ridiculous run on sentence, it’s called word vomit when your stress level is at my percentage! Anyways…this is a small video I put together today with my bff Grace and I literally going “Crazy” over school and deciding to have a little dancing fun to burn off some steam.

Sorry this is a short post, my life is a little whacky right now, as you can tell. (Garment photos will be coming soon!!!)

Oh ya, feel free to laugh!

 

 

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IS IT SPRING BREAK YET?!?!?!?!