"How is it? The clothes I made are pretty good, aren't they?"
Shulan looked smugly at Chu Yu's red dress. Some people are made to look good by their clothes, while others are made to look bad by their clothes. Chu Yu's dress was beautiful, and she was stunningly beautiful. The clothes and the person complemented each other perfectly.
Shulan's eyes lit up. "If you let your hair down and get it permed, it'll look like something out of a Hong Kong movie."
Chu Yu turned around and thought the dress was quite suitable for a ball, but it was a bit too revealing and would need to be altered for everyday wear.
"I'll keep this one to wear, and make another one that I can sell. I'll change the top to buttons, a lapel, fitted sleeves, and make it slightly shorter than a normal garment. I'll also modify the skirt to make it more suitable for everyday wear."
Shulan understood what she meant and made some corrections on the paper. The rest of the work was done well, but the sleeves looked strange. Chuyu took a pen and made some changes, and Shulan nodded in approval.
"It looks much better after the changes. No wonder you own a clothing store; you have a lot of ideas about clothing."
Chu Yu doesn't understand fashion design, but she has lived two lives. In her previous life, she bought a lot of nice clothes after becoming rich. With so many purchases, she naturally knows more about fashion.
Ask her to draw a clothing design sketch, she might not be able to, but ask her to modify the sketch, she doesn't find it difficult.
Shulan taught herself to draw, and she can draw in a clear and intuitive way, which is quite good.
However, professional clothing design drawings have strict requirements for human body proportions. Only by drawing human body proportions well can clothing proportions be drawn well, and only then can the clothing be more expressive.
"Sis, the head-to-body ratio of this model seems a bit off," Chu Yu pointed out.
Shulan was stunned. She had no idea what head-to-body ratio was. Just draw a little person and put clothes on their body, that would be enough. But Chu Yu wanted to steer her towards a more professional direction.
"I've never studied it, so I don't know how to draw it."
"Sister, try using lines and grids to determine the position. For example, draw horizontal lines all over a piece of paper, with each line 3-4 centimeters wide. Once you've drawn it, it'll be easy for you to find the right position, and the proportions and length of the clothes will be more accurate. You can also express details like the folds and shadows at the waist."
In her previous life, Chu Yu had interacted with fashion designers, seen their line drawings, and chatted with them briefly.
A good fashion designer needs a solid foundation, and Shulan needs to study systematically, preferably by attending night school to learn professional fashion design.
Chu Yu's line drawing method is indeed quite useful. After Shu Lan tried it, the human body proportions were indeed more accurate.
"Sure enough, once you understand something, you understand everything; people who get good grades are good at everything."
Shulan thought that Chu Yu had learned this from reading books. Reading is indeed a good thing. People who are good at reading are smart and can do anything well.
Shulan continued operating the sewing machine. Chuyu had rented the sewing machine from next door. She wanted to ask Ge Lanzhi to help her buy a few sewing machines, and Ge Lanzhi readily agreed. She also told her that the house issue had been resolved.
When Chu Yu returned to the roujiamo shop, Xiao Tong and Xiao Wang had already left. They said that today's interview was over and they were going back to organize the manuscript. If there were any omissions, they would come back tomorrow to improve them.
"Auntie, how did the interview go?"
"It went quite smoothly. You know what, Xiao Tong is definitely more professional than Xiao Wang. Many of the questions he asked were quite insightful."
Deng Fangping put the pots and pans in the bucket to soak, and while washing them, she said to Chu Yu:
"She asked us about the opportunity to open the shop, the difficulties we encountered, how we retained customers, and what our goals were. We didn't understand any grand theories, so we just told the truth."
Chu Yu smiled and said, "You are just representatives of ordinary rural working women. If you keep spouting high-sounding platitudes, people will see through you immediately. Just tell the truth. Sincerity is the greatest weapon."
Deng Fangping was also afraid of not performing well, and kept laughing:
“That’s what I think too. We come from the countryside and don’t have much education, so we can’t talk about grand principles. We can only share our experiences to encourage working women who want to start their own businesses.”
"Mom, things are going well for you too, right?" Chu Yu asked with concern.
She knew that Shu Hui had a knot in her heart, and that she was not as open-minded as Deng Fangping, so she was afraid that Shu Hui would be under psychological pressure.
Shu Hui was quite frank. She had been worried about this and that, but after the interview, she realized that thinking about it more would be useless. She was just worried that her and Deng Fangping's attire was inappropriate and that people would laugh at them after the photos were published.
"Mom, isn't this coat too fashionable? It doesn't look like something a simple working person would wear?"
Both of their clothes were gifts from Chu Yu. Deng Fangping wore a black down jacket, while Shu Hui wore a gray double-faced wool coat. The styles were conventional, but the cut and fit were quite good, so they naturally didn't look cheap.
The two of them were going for the working-class look. Deng Fangping originally wanted to find some simple clothes, but Chu Yu stopped her. It was nothing to earn money to buy a nice outfit. Besides, it was almost the end of the year, and everyone had a couple of nice clothes. There was no need to pretend to be poor.
Making money from opening a shop, wearing nice clothes, and having a good mental outlook—that's what gives people hope.
On the first day after the Lunar New Year, the roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) shop was bustling with customers. To thank their regular customers, Shu Hui and Deng Fangping gave each table a free tea egg and pickled vegetables. The tea eggs tasted good and were a novelty, so the customers were quite satisfied.
"Auntie, I forgot to tell you, Aunt Ge Lanzhi has found a house for you, west of the department store. It's a few hundred meters away from here, the house is by the roadside, not as lively as our area, but not much different, and the price is close to seven thousand."
"Seven thousand? That's not cheap."
"According to Aunt Ge Lanzhi, that house is larger, has more rooms, and has a railing on the roof where you can hang clothes to dry or dry grains."
House prices change every year. When Chu Yu first came here, prices were cheap. At that time, there were not many individual businesses in Deyang, and no one was doing business, so the prices of storefronts naturally did not go up. Some people who were short of money would sell their houses at low prices.
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