2011: Fairy Princess |
2012: Rainbow Fairy |
2013: Rose Dress |
2014: Upside-Down Orange |
2015: The Awesomes (with WILL!!!) |
2016: The Phoenix (which I sewed while sick with the flu) |
2017: Supergirl of the Night (the last design that I helped Syd sew) |
2018: Medieval Maiden (the first garment that Syd constructed completely independently) |
These are Syd's application pictures, and every year they suck, because February is rarely well-lit. Oh, well. You can still see that Syd's vision is a caped black tunic and leggings (upcycled from a few black tops and sweaters that we thrifted). The highlight of the garment is a pair of sleeves that Syd can make look ruched, but can also make look like this:
She used a pair of pants for those sleeves, and later altered it so that she could have a secret pass-through for her hands when they're in their super-long formation.
Syd really, really liked the idea of sleeves that drape like a bridal train, but she also intended from the beginning that they could be fully weaponized, like so:
I love seeing her have so much fun with her design. From the very beginning, Syd's garments have always been playful, and most of them embrace big, powerful movement.
Her garments are never something that you simply wear; they're something that you DO:
The day of the fashion show is the hair/makeup call, then the stage rehearsal, then cooling our heels in the house while the other acts rehearse--
--then the pizza party--
--then the fun time of squeezing into a few square inches in the overcrowded dressing rooms backstage--
--and then I go sit in the audience with the rest of the extended family, and Syd?
She shines.
Here are some cheater pics that I took during the dress rehearsal:
And here's the real show:
This year's official show photographer has been taking photos for four years now, and he also created the slideshow that played between the acts. Check out this awesome tribute that he made for all of the Trashion Kids--he made a whole slide for each kid that he'd seen come back every year, and here's Syd's!
Look at how she's grown. Syd actually HATES it when people tell her how much she's grown (it's Nutcracker-related trauma on account of they cast by height and they're always looking for the shortest kids and it sucks), but look at the kid in those photos. She has grown! Syd has always been an artist, but she's become such an able DIYer, too, confidently constructing her vision garment from top to bottom, shoes to hairstyle. Those leggings? She sewed them from a stretchy black sweater, sure, but she also did it WITHOUT A PATTERN. No template. She didn't even trace another pair of leggings! She just... started cutting, sewed them up, and boom. Perfect leggings.
Perfect leggings. Smoky eye shadow that she applied herself. A garment with sleeves fit for royalty and suitable as long-range weapons.
I absolutely can't wait to see what this kids does next.
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