I have been doing professional dressmaking at college and uni since i was 17 and working since i was 24, im now 31 so feel i have quite a bit experience, last year i took up a course refreshing in pattern cutting, 1 of my old friends tagged along to get out of the house really nothing more. we met this lovely girl ill call lou, she told us she was a dressmaker at first, a few months later she admitted she couldnt sew to save her life but had paid dressmakers over the years to make her designs up so she could sell them, to be honest they were the cheap kind you would see in markets which is were she sold them.
last year in feb i was made redundant and after searching for a job i decided to set up on my own through a princes trust course, I met up with her and showed her my busines card all excitedly and she was quite quiet in ehr response, even my other friend noticed and said to me later how weird she had gone. Recently i have been tagged in constant pictures of items she has made on facebook,things like headbands, chains etc she keeps promising to make certain items of clothing but the truth is she cannot sew, its not a problem but she keeps asking me to make the stuff for her to sell, ive told her i make them and sell them myself so she offeres me £4 to make each dress and cant understand why.
Today though she has noticed someone else who was on our course has her own facebook page and boutique, because of this she has become like a woman possessed trying to organise a photoshoot asking me to help and even offering me pictures for my portfolio.... i have my own i keep telling her, everything else about her is ok its just the fashion things she cant take it that she cannot sew, it takes years to train as a professional dressmaker and she believes she can do it, shes brilliant at making chains etc and ive tried to encourage her but now its like i dont want to tell her anything for fear of her copying me and being pushy about it all, sorry this is long just really needed a rant about her!