The way she sits when she approached the fashion house shows she is fussy. It is as early as 9am and as told she can’t wait to see the dress once again. Her last fitting was three weeks ago. Three weeks since she last saw and tried on the dress. If everything goes on well, today would be her last fitting before the dress is cut into other measurements and sold in retail shops.
Rather impatient than excited she watches as one of the fashion house worker brings in a package. Is that it? A third person in the room asks. The worker nods his head. After some moment of chit-chat between colleagues, the head designer, responding to the name Tamzeen, points to a different parcel hanging across the room.
The worker moves to unzip the parcel containing a red dress with front details and back buttons. Every detail is handmade as we get to know. It has taken three months to ensure the dress fits the model, Penelope. This dress has been designed to fit her body type while highlighting her long legs. Penelope looks astonish as the workers put in effort to remove the dress from its parcel. At this moment, we can all appreciate her increasing smile. Her eyes and skin glow with happiness as the event unfolds. She is sure a beautiful creature.
Please tell me you love it, Tamzeen exclaims as she inhales heavily. You can’t imagine the effort we’ve put into this little thing. Go ahead…try it on, she adds. Since she was discovered by Tamzeen’s fashion house, Penelope has worked with Tamzeen for a year in different projects. The two women have shared long hours and sumptuous stories. According to Tamzeen, it’s easy to work with Penelope because she has the patient to go through long fitting hours and the desirable body features.
As described by experts, fitting is the moment when it all comes to life. It is the time when a model works with a fashion house to ensure that what has been drawn on paper fits in real life. From paper design to retail shops, every fashion designer hopes the fitting stage will go smoothly as they study several parameters such as colour, textures, measurements, transitioning colours, model’s shape etc. They need the right model to make it a success.
Penelope is positioned on some sort of pedestal as fitting continues. The dress as been created to mask out Penelope’s bottom, highlight her neck, adjust to her shape; and at the same time support long leg stretches and allow her move with elegance.
Everyone is the room can appreciate these qualities as Penelope moves around in this red dress. Next step is to see how it will looks on her when she is on heels. For this purpose, a pair of stilettos with matching details as the dress has also been created and brought to the final session. After several rounds of cat walking, Tamzeen deems that fitting has been successful. We all watched Penelope as she carefully takes off these amazing stilettos and pulls off the dress. Can I try on a different dress, Penelope jokes as she smiles toward Tamzeen. Everyone in the room bust into laughter and applaud as it all came to an end.
Blogger’s conclusion
Fashion houses are constantly looking for models who will work with them through fitting, ensuring fashion designs come to life in a perfect harmony. Good qualities and hard work are required from models as fashion houses transition through the different stages of bringing ideas to life.
