Who wears short trousers?

This year we have moved on to making trousers which is handy cause I wear trousers but I dont really wear waistcoats very often. First pair I made I kind of rushed through just to see how the process works and they weren't anything special.

All the action was just in the top part though so we really only made a very nice pair of tailor made shorts.

The second pair we completed properly, adding lots of lining on the inside, belt loops, and a hook and bar to fasten them.

which makes them an even nicer pair of short shorts, but still just as useless as the first pair

Wednesday we are in tailoring from 10am to 8.30pm which can get very tiring. One day we were making our shorts and I was talking to a guy in my class who's lead singer in a band that are meant to be one to watch for 2013. He says he does day dream throughout the class about his band and how if they all lived closer together they could really become something great but then he comes back to reality and there he is stitching a little curtain onto a tiny pair of shorts which just isn't that exciting.

Inspire me!

Second year got off to a slow start for most people in the class I think due to a long break in the summer to get out of the swing of things, as well as the fact that pattern cutting was the same old shite as last year, there was 25 in the class instead of the 8 or 9 we normally had to share with (if I was paying for this course I would be pissed) and seeing 60 new piranhas in the fish tank starting in first year waiting in the wings to take what few jobs there are out there.

I was just getting back into it again around Halloween when we were landed with this whopper written project to do in a couple of weeks. It was like 7,000 words, pretty much a thesis, on the fashion industry. I really didn't see the point wasting any time on it so it became a copy and paste thesis completed in 7 hours the weekend before. There was a couple of interesting parts to it though including finding out who exactly Alexander McQueen is (don't tell anyone I said that) and learning a bit about Coco Chanel. I hoped placing some of her inspirational quotes around my room would help kick start my year.

And then there's me