*the feeling of absurdity*: The Doreme Matsuri, a school festival

2nd year student show

On the first day there was a typhoon! Gusts of wind and lots of rain, thus, the show was to be held inside. The second year students are divided into groups of four in which they collaborate on a design and idea, and put together a complete look, as follows:

One of the classes had a "maid cafe" at the matsuri. The students dressed as maids and served coffee and snacks. It was cold and my fingers were freezing. We went to have a seat. I should have taken a picture of the students in their maid outfits, and this one's kinda dark. I'll work on taking better photos.

There was a "T-Shirt/Y-Shirt Contest" (Y-Shirt meaning 'white shirt')
This girl, Yujin Oh, is from Korea. I remember she won an award last year for this contest. This year she made the shirt below, it's made of a semi-stiff material, something like a fancy canvas material, but softer and less stiff. The shirt looks like a jacket, no? She didn't win anything this year, too bad. The other pictures I took of the contest didn't come out so good, again, I'll work on it.

During the evening, there was a "Teacher Re-modeling" program. The students in the class think of a skit, or a dance, or a character for their teachers to be. This one was the best. I don't know who the teacher was supposed to be, but she was dancing her heart out, and the back-up dancers were her students. One of them is actually an assistant teacher.

Students in drag

Teacher in drag

It was so funny to see everyone dress in drag! Earlier there was also an event where one girl and one guy from every class dresses up in drag, with the help of their fellow classmates, of course, and go up on stage and get judged. Okay, sure, this is a fashion school, but even in high school festivals they have a contest or show where girls dress as boys, and boys dress as girls. Did we do that in high school? As an event we had to participate in? Huh?

So that was my weekend, and now I have Monday, and Tuesday off. Have to get a new cell phone, and clean my room, blah, blah, blah...

The design for the jacket, I'll hold on to it until we make coats. Instead, I'll make something a little more like...fitted, narrow, modern, a little...