Out Takes: 1950’s House Wife

August 8, 2014

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These Out Takes come from a summer shoot from the early days of The Curvy Elle in a post entitled: “1950’s House Wife.” They were taken at my grandmother’s house, which is almost like a time machine back to the 1960’s. She still loves to make her coffee with her glass percolator, has a lot of the same furniture from when she got married (1940’s) and on, etc. It hasn’t changed a whole lot as long as I’ve been around. I didn’t really appreciate her home and belongings until the past few years — before it was just “grams’ house.”

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Fashion Design 101

August 6, 2014

Yesterday, I did a second installment in Project Fashion Design at a local library. (Last March I did “Project Prom Dress”.) I have a degree in fashion design, worked as a fashion designer, and it is part of what I do here at The Curvy Elle, so it was a good experience to to do what inspires me, but took me out of my element.

With Project Fashion Design, I run a workshop for teens and pre-teens where I give a background of the design process; I assign them a season and theme (yesterday’s was “Fall/Back to School”); they pick inspiration image(s) from magazines, design a look, sketch it, and render (color) it; and present their design to everyone in the workshop. It was great to see the kids (and a couple of adults who participated) really get into it. This is my career and my passion and it is wonderful to maybe give a little guidance to someone else’s future.

 

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