Why this dawns on me now, I have no goddamn clue.

[apocalypsos]

The more I watch Project Runway and Project Catwalk, the more I think I should have gone to college for fashion design.

The one thing I did know before I even went to college was that I shouldn't be going for journalism and yet I was, but it was like I honestly couldn't see myself doing anything else. Never mind that my grandmother taught me to sew as a kid and I liked it a LOT and that Sukie in "Real Men Don't Make Cheesecake" is terrifyingly like me in high school. Never mind that when I tried to get into a creative summer program I got farther along with my art submission than I did with my writing submission. And never mind that I'm watching these shows and itching to get a working sewing machine so that I can make my own clothes again.

Did I ever mention that my mom used to design kids' clothes for a very small local clothes company around here when I was a kid? I mean, seriously.

And yet ... journalism. Because I'm stupid. (There's a reason I can't write nonfiction, y'all. Amazing how much people don't like it when you make stuff up in that job.)

I mean, if I won the lottery tomorrow I'd probably go back to school and get a fashion degree. I'd go back and learn how to make clothes and construction and design and WHATEVER. Seriously, as frustrating as constructing a dress or an outfit can be, it's the same good kind of frustration I feel when I'm working hard on a story. I can complain and bitch and moan but I enjoy the hell out of it at the same time. I'm just, you know, uneducated.

*hands*

This post brought to you by the part of my brain that's currently considering designing my own damn wedding dress. Like, right now. *sigh*

Comments

[riskygamble.livejournal.com]

For clothes-designing stuff, look up a show called "Paradise Kiss" on youtube. It's about a bunch of art school kids designing clothes for their school's year end fashion show. It's a semi-sequel to the writer's other comic/show called "Gokinjo Monogatari" (Neighborhood Story) about *gasp* MORE fashion students.

Parakiss was awesome, and BEAUTIFUL. And THE DRAMA! *swoon*

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

So why not go back part time? :)

You SO should. We could all say we knew a famous designer and stuff. And hold the RPS porn over your head and threaten to mail it to famous people you made clothes for and stuff.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's less to do with the urge and more to do with the massive debt. Hence the "if I won the lottery tomorrow" bit, 'cause that's the only way I'd be able to afford school again right now.

[celestialfairi.livejournal.com]

Just because you have no education in fashion doesn't mean you can't design your own wedding dress. I plan to do that, even though I'm in a completely unrelated field. Someone else will just have to... you know, do the hard part for me.

[idealistagain.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I can't write nonfiction, y'all. Amazing how much people don't like it when you make stuff up in that job.

But people make up stuff in that job every day. And then they do a whole TV program full of the stuff they made up. Its called the news.