Why Fashion Design?

To share a little about myself I am going to post the very first assignment I had to do for my writing class. The class is Fashion Research and Communication so we write press releases and news articles and other forms of fashion writing. But for the first assignment we had to write why we chose fashion as a major. So here it is and I hope you enjoy.

When people ask me why I chose to major in fashion design I have to stop and think about it because I’ve never really thought about it before. I just always wanted to. So since this question has been asked to me and I have to write it out I can really put some thought into it. There are a few reasons that pop into my mind right away. One, I love clothes, two, I love the idea of putting together an outfit for the day, three, shopping is one of my favorite activities to do because I get to see what is out there and get ideas from everything I see, and four, I love color especially bright ones and I would love to design clothes that show that.

When I was younger I was sort of like a tom boy. My best friend was a guy and because of that I would play basketball, football, play in the mud, pick up bugs, and all that. So my clothing choices during that period of my life were probably not the best. Usually it was just shorts and a t-shirt during the summer and an occasional tank but it was nothing special. At least it matched. But then around 7th grade things changed. I started to love going to the mall and was beginning to notice all these colors and different fabrics and textures and was amazed by it. I began to pay attention to what I would wear outside of school and on the weekends since I went to a private school and had a uniform. That also could have been part of it. Since I was told what to wear I became fascinated with all the clothes and combinations out there since I couldn’t wear them everyday like other people. This fascination just progressed through out high school and I decided around freshman year that I just loved clothes and thought it would be so much fun to design them myself. I also loved drawing so I took tons of art classes or at least as many as my schedule would allow.

Around the end of my sophomore year I began to realize that I had this love for tennis. So I took lessons all through the summer and tried out for my team at school. It was a new thing at my high school, it started my sophomore year, but the girls that joined it had all been playing forever. So I didn’t make it. But that didn’t stop me. I took lessons throughout my junior year and through the summer and then tried again. I made it. I was so excited; especially when we got our uniforms. I was so proud to wear that uniform; it was the cutest thing I had ever seen. Don’t get me wrong, I loved playing tennis but I think I was a bit more excited to wear that uniform. So when college started everybody talked about what they wanted to do with their fashion design degree and it got me thinking.

I could design tennis wear and work for Nike or Adidas or even Lacoste since he was the one who started the whole tennis wear as a fashion statement. So that’s where I’ve decided to go once college is over. Mix two of my favorite things together; Fashion and Tennis.