♥ Du Jour

I’m on work experience this week with Teacup at a fashion company in the city, and although I am so damn tired at the moment, I am enjoying every single second of it. So, as my ♥ du jour this week, I’ll tell you all about my joys at work experience.

1. The clothes: There are literally racks and racks of clothes in there, all colour coordinated, all very nice. It is my dream to be able to walk in there and dress myself every morning. I want to live there!

2. The freebies: Teacup and I have already taken reels of fabric home. We've gathered a lot of satin, silk chiffon, lace and tulle, with which Teacup is going to turn into tutus for the both of us. The whole process was very sneezey. The fabric room upstairs is very dusty and we constantly sneeze while inhaling a heap of dust. But that’s not the best part! Our supervisor has promised us free clothes at the end of the week! I am so excited.

3. The environment: The people there are extremely friendly. It’s a family business. The parents are in charge of the whole company, and each of the children take a different sector. Isn’t that so sweet? I wouldn’t mind working there at all.

4. The city: I love how everything’s so busy. All hustle and bustle. I guess the negative side to this is the crowdedness of the trains every morning/evening, but once you find yourself a seat, it’s all good.

5. The laughter: We had to take down racks and racks of clothes and hang them on the racks downstairs in time for the sale next week. Our work can be seen here:


But that picture shows nothing. You have no idea how much effort and trouble we put into taking all those dresses downstairs. We had to wheel them, rack at a time, down a very steep slope, up a kurby thing, through a door, and then take them off the racks, and put them onto those racks you see above.

Certain misfortunes include the whole rack collapsing, causing all the clothes to fall off in the middle of the street. What's worst is that a woman walking her dog happened to walk past, and I swear the dog was going to pee on all of the dresses if it wasn't so confined with its leash.

So whilst we grew bored of putting clothes on racks...









We saw this dress and we immediately thought of you, Jessica. It's very you. Especially the pattern at the bottom. What do you think?