BREAKING POINT
And finally, as the fatal fork in the road, the breaking
point of no return quickly approached things did fall into place, as they often
will, with a force of pressure applied.
Going in for a mandatory refresher training for Outreach
Events at The Scrap Exchange, as a last ditch effort, afterwards I approached
my supervisor about modeling the dress.
She was actually at the top of my list, followed by a series
of voluptuous, statuesque dark haired beauties who I have the privilage to
occaissionally work with at Scrap Exchange. Perhaps most volouptuous and
statuesque of all being Queen Bee herself!
Sup pointed me straight in the direction of number 2 on my
list, none other than my good friend of some time, Nicole Hogan.
THE WAY YIELDED A BOUNTY- Nicole and The Scrap Exhange
Design Center
Nicole was (and is), a natural fit. A tough punk rock
attitude, tempered gratefully by a sweet disposition. Much more relavently,
Nicole has a solid background in the world of both fashion, and Scrap (and yes,
Scrap Fashion), which was to prove indispensable in the course of the project.
As the Store Manager for The Scrap Exchange for many years,
beyond her years, Nicole had seen us all through the perfect storm of the
Tsunami that came crashing through roof of Liberty Warehouse 2 years ago,
forcing the The Scrap Exchange (with all of its many barrels and shelves of
things), fleeing in a hurried exodus, that almost proved fatal to this good
organization of 26 years. (see post- LINK!)
While The Scrap Exchange HAS managed to resettle itself in a
new space, to much good advantage of reorganization of said stuff, as Store
Manager, this epic operation has consumed every drop of Nicole’s time and
energy. And so she confided (as I hope that she willl not mind me confiding
with you, the wide world), that she was ready to dig back into her own realm of
fashion, and perhaps this could be a first stab of the scissors, to find
purchase, and peel back the creative parts of herself that have been starving
for the light of day. (I
extrapolating a little here, but I think that is accurate..).
Additionally, Additionally MIRACULOUSLY, Nicole pointed out
to me that The Scrap Exchange itself is privileged to own its own dress form, a
dress form it so happens that are almost exactly Nicole’s own good dimensions
(donated by a seamstress friend who moved to Russia). And to top it off, not
only was this perfectly fitted form located right on the premises themselves,
but it resides in…The Design Center!!!.........
THE DESIGN CENTER
Now, I have waxed elaborately and extensively in this very blog on the
virtues of this special new space that the Scrap Exchange provides to the good
public, should they need such a space..
(BLOG LINK to another awesome experience at the Scrap Exchange Design Center). Herein is a studio equipped with all manner of equipment,
from hot t-shirt presses, to industrial sewing machines, to die cutters, to
dress forms!!!
And so it was that things did begin to fall into place for
this improbable dress....
