The Right to Bare Arms!

I was stoked to roll out with bare arms this morning! It was the first warm-enough day of 2011. Four Months in, and I can finally ride in a tank & vest!

My morning ride was anxiety riddled due to the threat of rain. The sky looked all gray and scary.
It rained so majorly that I left my bicycle at work and took the subway home.


I think I'm just going to wear a tank-top every day until further notice.

I try on at least a couple sweaters/jackets/top samples every working day, and it's best to just whip the sample on right over a tank. Sometimes I have to go back and forth changing in and out of 2 slightly different versions of one sample over and over while we work out subtle differences. Hotness. I also get really hot trying on things like Jackets. Now that it's spring and we work so far in advance, I began trying on jackets for next fall/winter today.

I found some spring blooms in Central Park this morning. I get very excited about terrific green grass.

The Fit-Modeling Part

The fit-modeling. It's a part-time job that happens every day. That means, I get dressed for work but I take off my outfit and try on other stuff. There are these little documents that discuss the tech. specs. of each item. Various other people who play different roles discuss the items while I have them on. There's always a production person, a sales-person, the technical seamstress and usually the designer.

It's pretty nice to get paid for this. It's very nice.



How's the arm-hole? Is the fabric itchy? Or "These buttons are too high/low!"
It means a lot of people tug on the clothes I'm wearing, measure me, take photos like this, spin me around and around, etc. It's fine. After what I've been through in working in NYC, it's great to get paid to do this.

Yesterday I had to try on 2 almost identical sweaters and give my honest opinion about the quality/feel/stretch of each.

When I ride the bus and see people wearing things that I think we made - I realize it. I'm learning about clothing construction, mass-production and sweater-knit tension. I never knew sweater-knit tension existed. I've never been more conscious of how an arm-hole is feeling. Where seams are running, etc.