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...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...
...happy about,” says Petrich as the 3 p.m. deadline approaches; the front panel, made from a striped women’s blouse, is “too wide” for her tastes. Twenty minutes before 3, Petrich adds two pockets to the front of the dress “to break up the pattern.” And by 2:46 p.m., she declares success...
...four hours later, Petrich still has to work to do—putting the design on her model, Anne E. Berndtson ’08, required a little last-minute finagling. The dress is backless save two gold chains, and Petrich has to apply tape along the bodice of the dress in The Crimson’s restroom to make sure that it stays in place...
...forward to Mather House’s sweet embrace as I head down Cowperthwaite Street in the early morning, I get one last whiff of Harvard’s social reality. I recognize one of the girls walking ahead of me, a beautiful girl, restrained in section, always well-dressed. Now, that girl is screaming loud profanities about how, no, she doesn’t like this piece of pepperoni pizza, that she only eats cheese pizza, and that...She doesn’t have time to articulate fully this thought, instead losing her balance and falling into the dewy...