The monkey suit...

Had my introduction to the costume department last friday along with two of my classmates Ntombi and Olivia...Not such an interesting start to to subject moving around props and clothing from end to end of the cotume department, but at least it gave us an idea of how it is when there is no productions going on to work for! Not as much fun as the costume department should be..But trying on a few props i guess helped the time pass. After playing dress up we got another couple of jobs to undertake...a tad more interesting than moving rails. We each got asked to overlock a prop napkin for the drama department...whilst my fellow costume carriers were doing theres i got to sort out shoelaces and cords! (Think i found a new hobbie! haha) Then once we swapped over and i played with the overlocked...which is now on my mental wish list!....The other two got to do a bit on ironing..and steaming of a very interesting looking monkey suit..
Ah the fun to be had in the wardrobe department...

Much love
Miss.monkey-suit-lover

An early start...

After about 2 months of getting to lay in most days, yesturday i was hit hard when i had to drag myself out of bed at 7.15 for my first day back at college...
The day was long...but we got to grips with what we will be doing over the next year
And one thing i cant wait to get started on is a new Costume section to our course!
We all get to take part in becoming costume deigners for the colleges drama department..
We are going to be put into groups and work alongside to directors, actors, lighting guys and waredrobe department to create pieces for upcoming shows and dances.
Im really looking forward to getting into this as i have been considering this as a career lately....we will seeee.....

I'll keep you posted!

Much Love.
Miss LV.

Back to work...

So after our independent project being canceled this summer we have been given a new project to get started on. The first of my second year doing fashion, and this time its...Fashion Eras.
We get to choose whatever era we want from cavemen to the swinging 50s to the future if we want!
I looked into a few eras which were more my style than working out what fashion will become in 50 years and first thought about doing the victorian era..very me and would be great to do considering the fact we will be doing a lot of textiles technique samples.
But, i feel like i wouldnt be able to explore the era as much as i would have wanted to with the timeframe we have been given....so on comes my second choice...
The Twenties.
And there it is folks, my new project. Getting down to grips with Coco Chanel and the Roaring Twenties.

At the moment i have done general research into the era and have found some pretty awesome images and ideas to use...

Miss Coco Chanel herself sporting the well known classic 1920s cropped hair, cloche style hat and world famous low waisted late 1920s dress, a classic 20s look shown off by the best known 1920s designer.

More pictures to come soon my fellow bloggers...

Much Love

Miss V.

Baby boy...

Back again with some new news,

So my brother and his girlfreind have just had a little baby boy, my new little nephew Max...
And well a new baby calls for prezzzies..what springs to mind but some personalised embroidered bibs for little Max
I only got around to doing 3 of them a couple of weeks ago and here they are...

And here is the little man himself showing off his new bib...

Toodles,

Much love

Auntie Sairah...x