Journal

The first step I need to do is find a mentor.

October 18, 2011 I haven't written in my journal really because I didn't know when we would have to write something but I know now. I am going to talk about last week and maybe a few weeks before and then this week. Once I started on this project I didn't really know what topic I was going to do my project on besides having it have something to do with fashion design. So I would look at article almost any article I could find about fashion design and a lot of them didn't give me info about fashion design, but info about designer's fashion shows. The articles were very short, like 3 sentences long, and some were just pictures of women on the catwalk. I got stuck and couldn't really do anything further because the articles I found were not helpful at all. I came up with a topic about the differences between fashion in America and in Europe and I didn't really get much information there, so I talked to you and Dr. Valenza and you guys helped point me into a direction that was helpful to me. One topic I came up with was how people can be characterized by what they wear. For example, if someone wear all black they would be thought of as gothic, if someone wears jerseys and sports stuff all of the time they would be called jocks, and etc. I found articles that had little sections in them about this topic, but I didn't find a lot about it. Dr. Valenza tried to help me and found somethings for me, but there still wasn't enough information about it and I started to get confused about what I was doing after a while because Dr. Valenza came up with a lot of different topics for me and it became to much after a while. I decided to do my project on uniforms at school because I thought that would be a great topic and I knew I would get a lot of information about it. I found about 4 article the first day I changed and I was glad I did, so I shouldn't have any more problems for now.

October 24,2011 I finished all ten of my annotations today. I am going to have to talk to you another time because I wanted to ask you a few questions but you were not here today so I might ask you tomorrow or I will wait till Wednesday. I am going to have to see what I have to do to make one of my designs but I might have to do different designs since I changed my topic last week so I don't know what I am going to do.

November 2,2011 I have my final designs for my 4 drawings, all I need to do is color them in and then I will pick one of them to make. I got my organizer back yesterday and it turns out that I have a lot of work to do. All of the stuff I have is good but I have to change my topics and hopefully have more to write about. I am going to get some help from Laura's was perfect and that will probably help me out more even though her subject is different from mines. Looking for for pictures and stuff for some parts will be difficult because when I type in certain words, they don't give me the right things that I want. A good thing so far for pictures, is that I use to go to Bradwell Institute in Georgia, it is a school that's dress code is for uniforms, and I have pictures of my friends and I with our uniforms on. I just need to ask you how to you want them to be cited. I also need to look for other pics and songs and that will probably take for ever but I will be okay I guess.

November 9,2011 I finished my informative research organizer, the second draft, Monday morning and turned it in on time. I think I did everything I needed to do but I think I am missing somethings or I might have did something wrong, so I am going to ask for help and hopefully get that resolved so I won't go around thinking I did my organizer wrong. I haven't really done anything else, but I am practicing sewing for my final product so that is good. When ever I am done with that I will go to the store and get the material I need to finish this project. I also need to get a progress report from my mentor.

January 11, 2012 Yesterday I finished my dress. I sew the hem line for the top of the dress and that was surprisingly easy considering the fact that the bottom of the dress took me for ever to perfect it the best way I could. The top hem looks better than the bottom one. The I added the zipper onto the dress. I looked at a few videos on youtube to get some ideas of how to attach the zipper but it is kinda hard for me because of how I sew the dress. Almost every single video I looked at had two separate pieces of fabric and the zipper was unzipped. They sew one side of the zipper onto on of the pieces of cloth and did the same with the other unzipped side of the zipper with a the other piece of fabric. Finally they connected the bottom part of the zipper together with the pieces of cloth. The way I did it was by making the whole dress and then cut the dress in the middle of the back to the zipper's full length...so it was difficult for me to put the zipper in but I made it work. Now I know what I am supposed to do next time. I have people like Zachara, Marquee, Lauren and other people that actually want me to make them a dress like mine, but with a different color. They are also offering to pay so I could have a little business going on until the end of the year if I'm up for it. Since I made my this dress, I know what to do and what not to do, so it should be easier for me to make more of the same dress.

January 16, 2012 I presented my project and I am finally done. All I have to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of presentations. I feel like a weight has been lifted off of me and I can't wait to graduate, just one more semester left.