OK, I promised I would post some from my college years...
Here goes.
During Freshman year we were not in our major yet, so the pictures will start with Sophomore year.

This is one of the earliest illustrations I found from college. The date says 11-3-94. There are so many things wrong with this. lol. In the beginning we did a lot of lingerie and swim wear to get a good feel of the body before we started covering it with clothes.
This one's date says, 3-18-95. I remember the assignment had to do with illustrating textures in fall clothes.
I know this one is from Sophomore year too, just by the drawing style, but it doesn't have a date. It was a bridal assignment obviously.

Here's one from model drawing class towards the end of the year.


These are more from model drawing class, probably my junior year.






















These are both projects from the beginning of Junior year.




















One of my critics that year was Anthony at B.U.M. I ended up working there during summer break cause I liked him so much.















These first two illustrations were done during the design process...


And this last one, was my final garment. My son Tallon, who is ten can wear the jacket now. :-)
 Not that he ever wants to, but it fits. The shorts were worn out long ago by another little boy I knew named Cody.






My other critic when I was a junior was Anne Cole swim wear. This is my suit. It never made it in the show... only to a window display off Rodeo drive.









I have blocked out the name of our first critic Senior year. It was a terrible experience. I had a wonderful time designing, and all was going well. We started taking computer classes and learned how to do flats with the computer. That was a nightmare. My designs got stunted because of my inability to make flats. Then on top of all that our department chair decided to single me out and tell me everything I had done was completely wrong. What was interesting is that though she did criticize my flats (and rightfully so), she also criticized my designs saying they did not follow direction. The direction was a 'Jackie O' look done with very specific fabrics that were given to us by the critic. My design teacher ...and all the other students thought I had it nailed.

To make a long story short, I re-did all of my designs the night before, changing the collars from wide standing to close to the neck, etc.  Just to have them ripped up by the critic, and told to change them to wide standing. Not being allowed to speak against my department chair, I stood and took the insults. Cried brutally afterward, and was slightly comforted later by my classmates who told me they knew I had it right before.







The last critic of the year for me was Barbie.
There was a motorcycle wear men's challenge in between, but I'm not going to did up those photos now.
This is the Barbie final look, that I made. I'll have to look for actual pictures of these Senior projects.
My Barbie was "ivy". We all had a plant or flower.
I made the trellis out of ribbon. The gown was beaded, and the other leaves were wrapped around with wire.



These are some other designs...