Freakishly interesting Galliano de-constructed jacket. [photo credit: showstudio]

A while ago I found a 50 year old lady to help me with the sewing part of some of the garments that I made; because of all the orders that I got plus working on new samples/collections, I could not work alone anymore. I needed to get help with the production. At first, we got along very well and she seemed to do a great job. However, at one point she sewed the dresses way to fast, the finishing details were off/missing, I had to double check everything and actually re-sew parts of the garments myself, all over again. Of course that was stupid, because I payed her and she didn’t do her job well, which meant we had a problem. The worst part? It was my name on the products, my responsibility, my reputation.

Because I couldn’t afford to loose her as help, we had to have a serious talk about taking things up a couple of notches, quality-wise. Which, of course, meant doubling the payment that I gave her. Right now, everything seems to be fine again, however there are a couple of things I learned these last months: whatever you want to be done right, do it yourself and the root of most problems is money.

It really sucks being a grown-up…