Fitting at the Million Dollar Fancy

>The show fell on a April 5th, a Thursday, so Ozzy m'dear couldnt make it down since she had class on Friday bah*.....I previously mentioned that i started sewing a bit later than i planned due to focusing on getting a temp J.O.B for the summer...thankfully it still all worked out and by the fitting date *last week Monday* we had all our ish together...

>Now fitting was another long ass issue...I very clearly remember going for one of the earlier practices to pick our models....we specifically chose 12 females in total...the plan was to put about 12 - 15 clothes in the show...leaning more towards 12 really...we knew that the organizers were a bit antsy about putting a lot of clothes from the ASA show...so in order to make sure we didn't have to begin sewing a whole lotta new clothes from scratch we wanted to keep the numbers of clothes we put in very doable. The whole show was generally arranged into Scenes....cute scenes nonetheless....we were told we were going to feature in the socialite scene which basically featured bubbly, puffy, colorful, barbie like dresses....and also a scene called "sexy siren*...which featured sexy kelis like dresses.....THAT was the plan...like i just mentioned...we chose 6 girls for each scene....12 in total.

>Now at fitting we were presented with an extremely DIFFERENT plan...suddenly it seemed like were the only designers for the socialite scene...there were about 15 girls in that scene that NEEDED dresses and all eyes turned to cranberry to fit them...i am talking girls that had absolutely NOTHING to wear like 3 days before the show.....including plus size models who we had absolutely NOTHING for...and what i really did not like was the helplessness of the situation...i am telling these ladies in charge that there is NOTHING we can do to fit these ladies and they are telling you , "But, she starts the scene, can you guys make them something in 2 days?".....the funny thing is we had all this time the previous week to make clothes for these ladies...all we needed were their measurements and everything would have been done ASAP....We should have been informed that we were expected to fit everyone in this scene from the very beginning....all it could have taken was an email or a phone call.....but the acorn had to drop 3 days before the daggem show....so we ended up fitting the 12 clothes on different models...some we chose...and some we didn't (basically the organizers fitted the clothes themselves...which was kinda easier for us bcos it made the process a whole lot easier after all we were fitting models we didn't choose anyway).....and because we felt bad for the darling organizer who seemed so STRESSED out , we decided to try and see what we could do for the girls without clothes.....so we went home, brought back out our machines which we had gladly put away the night before BAH:( * and began remixing old clothes our first show and we also added clothes from the ASA show (but of cus) and we refitted the next day....one of the models who was a plus size was chosen to wear a blue satin dress which was clearly NOT her size...it couldn't zip past her waist...it did look good on her from the front...but the back was just not working out....and unfortunately for us she was opening the scene....again everyone's eyes turned to cranberry to help Fix the dress...suggestions were made of cus...to remove the zip and add more fabric blah* blah* blah* ...of cus that was not happening, why would we change a dress just for one model who was not going to buy the dress anyway.....so i calmly told them the dress was not going to be used on the model, we had plans to reuse the dress in another show and changing it would cost us and not them and most importantly we didn't have anything for her AFTER ALL we specifically never picked her and that was that!....i honestly believed the message was delivered very clearly...but apparently it wasn't bcos the model ended up wearing the dress with a red scarf abi shawl tied around it.....i didn't like it....

>I wont lie i do have some divalike tendencies but i tried my hardest to curb any such instincts in this show because i could see how hard these ladies were working to make their show a hit...unfort * i felt their expectations from cranberry was just too much....they wanted to fit everything we had BUT... didn't want it to be from ASA.....how much stuff do they honestly think we have?...it has not even been a year since we started ...dang....and we purposely designed for their scenes which is something i hated to do because we were making very cliche cranberry dresses over and over and over again...we felt restricted in our design because we knew it wouldn't fit the scene.....in fact i even felt some of the stuff we made was not bubbly enuff for wat they expected...i mean the organizer would ask if i could bubble some stuff more...im like...uhh ?????????....SHOW ME THE MONEY??!!!!....lol...AND lawd help me.....there was this turquoise dress which we brought to the first fitting which personally didnt look nice on the girl whom they chose to wear it...frankly, i made that dress at like 3am when i was half asleep so i didn't really like the dress that much so i informed them that i wasn't putting it into the show....i decided that since i didnt want them to be a dress short i would fit the girl with another dress ..which i did....but somehowwww at every fitting practice till even the DAY of the show...the organizers kept on calling and asking me in this accusatory tone lol about the dress...talking about how, they need the dress, that some pple dont have anything to wear, and how come the turquoise dress is not in the box???...im like dang!! .....pay me and then ask me these questions!......ALL IN ALL shows are Stressful for both designer and organizer and frankly despite all these my numerous complaints lol i reallllly enjoyed working with these ladies, they were very sweet and great to work with and they did a WONDERFUL JOB in total..i loved it!!....my next blog would feature stiffity stuff from the show.....but boy am i glad this is over!....oh and my last complaint*...i was quite a bit bummed that my fave model in the show "FAWN"(who personally came to complain to me the day of the show lol).... did not get to wear Cranberry...they switched her clothes with two other models who did not kill it as much as she would have....not to worry, she is my new cranberry model...love her!