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Ina Murphey
As a young girl, I would sew with my mother. She would be making clothes for me and I would be making clothes for my Betsy McCall doll. When I wasn’t trying to make clothes for Betsy, I would be drawing, coloring, painting and cutting new wardrobes for my paper dolls. It seems like I’ve always loved to design and make clothes.
My dolls served another function. When I started school, they helped me do my homework. I would line them up in front of my desk and pretend to teach them the lessons I was supposed to be learning. Not many people, least of all my mother, were surprised when I grew up to be a teacher, or that the subject I taught had something to do with fashion and sewing! I started out teaching high school home economics. Then, when the curriculum changed, and sewing was no longer included, I too had to move on as well. I spent a little more than a decade coordinating weddings and designing custom wedding gowns. Seeing a bride walk down the aisle in a gown I designed and created was absolutely thrilling! I loved the flurry of activity, filled with happy brides, hyperactive bridesmaids, over anxious mothers, and fathers who just wanted to know how much all of this stuff was going to cost.
To make a long story shorter, I went from wedding coordinator, to graduate student, to college professor of fashion design & merchandising, then on to the fashion industry for a brief period, back to teaching, and now, finally, retirement!!! At last—I can sew for my dolls again! Thanks to the internet, I can not only share my creations with others, but I get to meet and share ideas with some of the most creative people on the face of the planet--doll hobbyists!!
My dolls served another function. When I started school, they helped me do my homework. I would line them up in front of my desk and pretend to teach them the lessons I was supposed to be learning. Not many people, least of all my mother, were surprised when I grew up to be a teacher, or that the subject I taught had something to do with fashion and sewing! I started out teaching high school home economics. Then, when the curriculum changed, and sewing was no longer included, I too had to move on as well. I spent a little more than a decade coordinating weddings and designing custom wedding gowns. Seeing a bride walk down the aisle in a gown I designed and created was absolutely thrilling! I loved the flurry of activity, filled with happy brides, hyperactive bridesmaids, over anxious mothers, and fathers who just wanted to know how much all of this stuff was going to cost.
To make a long story shorter, I went from wedding coordinator, to graduate student, to college professor of fashion design & merchandising, then on to the fashion industry for a brief period, back to teaching, and now, finally, retirement!!! At last—I can sew for my dolls again! Thanks to the internet, I can not only share my creations with others, but I get to meet and share ideas with some of the most creative people on the face of the planet--doll hobbyists!!
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