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...hand, Baird then searches for the fabric that will make up the rest of the dress. Designing without a sketch, but with the colorful bikini fabric to work with, Baird looks for a solid color to make up the bottom half of her creation. After aT ride to Chinatown, Baird, after a long search, finds a deep purple fabric for the dress and gauze for the straps for about 14 dollars...
...that night, Baird has taken apart the bikini top and pinned it to her dressmaker’s mannequin. A summer of intensive fashion classes at The Art Institute of Chicago taught her some basic design skills, but starting a dress from scratch is a far cry from the altering and designing that she’s used...
...Baird calls it a night at 4:05 a.m. With most of the dress finished, Baird realizes the next morning that she needs snaps to hold her design together. After fitting her model, Rachel F. Banay ’07-’08, she checks her receipts—the snaps pushed her 86 cents over budget...
Waiting for the show to begin, Baird is more excited than nervous. “I think it will be so exciting to see other Harvard designers,” she says, “because there are so few of us here...
...regal Rachel F. Banay ’07-’08 appeared first in an aubergine empire-waisted creation by Lucy W. Baird...