Drawing Dresses

Had a couple of clients these past couple of weeks.  Lots of sketches, lots of back and forth.  Needless to say… fun!

Clothes are magic.  I love working with people of different sizes and shapes.  Funny, when I was in school for fashion, I had this teacher who would grade me down if I didn’t draw my fashion models like tall skinny poles with boobs.  I did protest; he said “even if you are designing for a larger frame, you still have to present it that way… it’s industry standard.”  So I did research…

… and he was so wrong! Ha ha.  Ah well.  I was part of a class action lawsuit against the school, and won.  Because they… weren’t doing what they said they would.

But, I had a great semester of learning, sewing, and discovering the depth of my love for fashion.  It’s amazing, what clothes can do.  Accentuate.  Deconstruct.  ART!

I’ve had my reservations.  There can be so much attitude attached with the discipline, so much assumed shallowness.  And yes, it can be.

But that doesn’t mean I have to be that way.  Here’s the dance, here’s the rub.  Nothing left to do but feel sew-sew about it all.