A Mannequin Would Be Useful...

...but then that would take all the fun out of playing dress up with long pieces of flowy material! So in addition to working as the costume designer for Looking North, an indie tv show I'm currently working on, I've recently agreed to assist with a new line of clothes a friend of mine is adding to his current jewelry business. When I was little one of my favorite things about bathtime was seeing how many "dresses" I could create by wrapping myself in bathsheets in creative fashions. Luckily, my mother thought I was cute, and didn't fuss over the amount of towels I tended to use on my fashion sprees. Last night, while practicing my veil routine for an upcoming performance, my new kitty, Persia wrapped herself around my legs while I was spinning causing my veil to become tangled, so I stopped to untangle it. In the process I noticed the veil was quite interestingly wrapped, so I went to have a look at it. Upon seeing it in the mirror, I suddenly had the most wonderful idea for a dress that would incorporate almost every aspect of the dresses that my friend and I had been discussing. I then spent the next hour with two other veils wrapping them in the perfect manner so as to see how the dress would look. I then took a couple of snaphots, so I can start drawing the dress. So basically, under the guise of "working" I spent an hour playing dressup! And I must say, I think this dress is going to be a winner. ;) So, even though a mannequin would be quite convenient, and I could stick pins in it to hold the fabric in place, and I wouldn't have to continually be running back and forth to the mirror to see if everything was in place, I just don't think it would be quite as fun as getting to play dressup is. More details will follow soon on our new endeavor.

But for now, if you would like to get involved with something that I'm working on, then you should follow the below link (to a kind of awesome blog anyway, and the above mentioned friend of mine!) and help out Looking North with its first ever fundraiser!!

http://www.collinmizell.com/2010/06/looking-north-could-use-your-help-to.html