The fitters is a lovely place. It is small and has a similar feel to a
house. You enter and wait in a small living room with magazines and sketches of
all the new designs. Some of the most famous designs have been framed and hung
around the room. It gives the area a lovely feel.
The head seamstress, Amanda, brings me into a fitting room with a large
set of mirrors arranged to make a semicircle, allowing one to view oneself from
any angle. Amanda brings in some rolls of fabric to allow me to choose a
colour. I spent a majority of yesterday thinking about what I might like to
wear and have decided to go with a midnight theme. I have never seen anyone
wear such a dress but feel like it will look very dashing.
I pick a midnight blue sheer fabric to go over a black satin, all this
being for my torso. I ask Amanda if it would be possible for the sheer to be
embroidered with silver beads and such to make it look like a night sky. I also
asked if beads could be very thickly done at the top and to slowly thin down
until there are only about six beads at the bottom of the torso. I ask for a
similar thing to be done for the sleeves.
Amanda says that it sounds absolutely marvellous and that I should start
designing dresses for the company. I don’t tell her that I do design dresses
for myself at home, but mother believes it is a silly fascination that does not
deserve my time. I love designing dresses but know nothing will ever come of
it.
Next I ask Amanda if we could make the skirt of
the dress a light-to-mid charcoal grey. This is easily done. Above the charcoal
grey we have the midnight sheer with only some randomly placed silver beads
throughout the fabric. The sheer, however, is cut in sections so that the dress
appears to have panels of the grey and of the midnight sheer alternating.
Amanda says that the dress is one of the
loveliest she has seen and that she will spend the remainder of the day working
on it and all of tomorrow to make sure that it is ready for my father’s party.
I cannot express to Amanda how grateful I am for her help.
Finally I ask Amanda if it would be possible to
add a trim of loose white silk to the top of the dress, the top of the
shoulders and the bottom of the sleeves. In the end the dress design that
Amanda has drawn for me looks lovely. My shoulders and upper chest are left bare
and the sleeves start at my upper arm and end at my wrists. The dress looks
better than I thought possible. I thank Amanda profusely and go back to mother
so that we can pick up the other dress and return home.
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