Sister Visiting - Being a Fashion Designer
My sister is visiting for the weekend. My best friends came over yesterday and we all went up to the organic markets in Frederick for shopping. I fell in love with the market immediately (even though they are pricey), and fully intend to molest the markets on a regular basis.
My sister told me she watched some movies on animal cruelty lately and has been working hard on eating a vegetarian diet. So while my friends came over we went over a few different things that she can eat and enjoy. She also helped me while I made some meatless spaghetti which she loved 
I want to support her choices, and I’m thrilled she’s being conscious about her decisions with her diet, and the environment. Maybe some of my habits did get a chance to rub off on her 
My sister’s current career path choice is a fashion designer. She’s taken some model sketches and drawn various dress designs on them, and they are actually pretty good. I know she’s also been fairly decent with artwork, something I was never good at.
So I want to encourage her current passion by
1. Scanning her current designs so she has them in digital format to send off.
2. Research schools around here that have a good fashion curriculum
3. Start teaching her some sewing basics (which is all I know, but I do have an old text book from when I took a sewing class in highschool), and maybe research some good classes she can take at the local college when she gets older.
4. Start helping her to save money for college and teaching her about savings and being frugal
5. Encourage her passion
She is starting highschool next year (WHAT?!?) and I think it’s good she’s thinking about her career choice now. She also mentioned wanting to do something for animal rights and the environment (YES!!!), so I mentioned doing fashion in the organic fabric and animal-free department. Which will require her to do research on the new types of materials being used for this purpose, like bamboo. She could even do what one guy did that I read about a couple months ago, make fashionable items out of recycled clothing.
Some local colleges I’ve looked at so far in regards to fashion:
The Art Institute of Philadelphia
List of Art Institutes with Fashion Design
Some additional links:
Blast Eco-Fashion or Blast Art and Design
Fashion Television
Fashion Open Directory Project
Fashion Design Resource Center
Fashion Schools.com
How to become a fashion designer
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