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"Isn't the point not to look like we're wearing trash bags?" Vivi retrieved the magazine now that it was abandoned and flipped through for her own inspiration. Nothing too puffy or frilly or fussy, although it needed to be complicated enough to impress the professor. That part was key.
"Heel... d'you suppose we'll have to make shoes as the final step of this process?" She dragged her parchment across the stones and selected a piece of charcoal. Several different simple sketches went down, one after the other as they were considered and abandoned. Each was too simple for the project or too complicated for her to wear. SIGH. "I'm a mess in heels as well, so I can completely appreciate your dilemma. We'll have to train to walk in them if the need arises."
The last skirt she drew was a bit fuller up top but tapered nicely to a fitted look... it was the best of both worlds, with some complicated designing in the make of the skirt but not in the fit. Vivi gnawed on her lip as she filled in the rest of the lines and considered the fact that this particular skirt wouldn't work without a belt. It needed a belt because it was sort of high waisted. Needed. "How would you go about making a belt? Another trashbag?"
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I was just saying that IF you had to wear one you could pull it off," Kurumi replied with an innocent smirk gracing her lips.
Kurumi moved and grabbed a few trash bags - probably twice as many as she needed but she was feeling a little nervous about ruining at least ONE of the layers while she worked - and returned to her dummy where she used a Severing Charm to slice it along one side so she could wrap it around the mannequin's waist. She repeated this with two more trash bags and then had her attention caught by Vivi once more.
Heels....cue internal cringe. "
I...think so? We sort of seem to be working from top to bottom when it comes to outfits. We made a top. Now bottoms...or maybe we will just transfigure socks?" Socks were harmless...for the most part anyway. "
Lewis' mother tried to teach me while I visited him over the summer. It was a mild disaster really. I wish I had older sisters instead of brothers sometimes, especially when it comes to things like this." Because, well, Vivi now knew that she didn't have an adult female in her life to teach her such things. "
Or we can just use each other as crutches to walk around."
She was joking. Sort of.
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I would use a second bag," Kurumi nodded. "
Professor Magnus did mention that if you concentrated enough you could do it with just one, but that different textures and parts could be made with separate trash bags. Using two different ones is sort of sending your brain a subliminal message that you are making two pieces." That made sense, right?
Kurumi glanced at her design once more and then at the three trash bags she had layered on top of each other on her mannequin when Alexa walked by. Kurumi smiled and returned the wave, but her focus was sort of on the trash bags and her chanting inside her head that she would NOT melt any of the three layers while she worked.