Chapter 152 - Ball Ready Clothes

25 January, LY Studio, City K

In the main design area, Lexi stood with the dressmaking staff to carefully examine the dresses they had brought in for her to check, before Sarah, Monica and Jessica arrived for their fittings. While designing couture dresses was always a challenge, doing them to Sarah Monica, Jessica and herself, for not only society functions but the upcoming Military Ball was even more a challenge. The materials needed challenged even the dressmaking staff, which the loved. It required them to balance out the elements she ensured was in every couture design, while using high quality materials that would not be out of the range for military wives. Naturally, she went all out with her own dresses as she, first and foremost was a designer, but toned it down to them keeping that in mind.

Starting with Sarah's first dress she carefully lifted it on to spread it onto the table to carefully examine it with the dressmaking staff. At her first observation it was clear that all the staff had delivered on the concept of the dress, balancing out the competing elements. While, her staff knew her reluctance to use crystals on the couture designs, using them on this dress for Sarah combined with everything else worked.

After five minutes carefully examining the design dress, Lexi was happy with it, and signalled for the next dress to be placed down to examination. Over the next hour or so, with her team she worked through each dress for Sarah, Monica and Jessica, before sparing a quick glance at the dresses for her. She knew that she could always adjust her dresses when they fitted them.

While she was there, the dressmaking staff quickly placed before her the concept baby pieces that she had designed for Anna Hou's twins. It had been about two years since new pieces were added to the baby and infant collections but having a new friend due to give birth inspired her. Lexi, however was pleasantly surprised, as her new pieces had inspired others to make items for consideration.

After examining beautiful piece, Lexi selected a few pieces to have set aside for Anna and her babies, which down the track she would add to the collection. The others, she divided into three separate groups. Unlike a few other designers with baby and infant clothes collections, her mainstay collection focused on ageless designs rather that constantly attempting to predict a path for baby and infant clothes which ensured that her collection would always sell pieces despite it not being the primary collection. Of course, there were always special edition pieces, only available for a limited time. The first pile was to add quickly to the permanent collection, the second pile for adding later to the collection and the third pile being the limited-edition designs. Once she finished this, she informed the staff what was to happen with each piece.

While talking to the seamstresses and the design team, an idea for a new baby piece hit Lexi, and she picked up a pencil and pad to start to sketch it but became distracted by a voice entering the room, saying "Miss Lexi, your guests are here."

Lexi turned and coming into the room behind the staff member were Sarah, Monica and Jessica. "Come on in. I have the dresses ready for you to try on, but I will leave you in the hands of my staff in case there are any minor adjustments needed."

Sarah said "Dresses?"

"Naturally. There is a dress for the Military Ball that you told me about, but do you think I am not going to make sure that you are prepared for dresses that you can wear to a mixture of other events including society functions that Jessica and I drag you to, either on our personal invitations or the invitations for our families. If there is anything you are not happy with, tell my team and they will make any necessary adjustments. When you are done, they know to show you to my office."

After carefully observing Jessica, Sarah and Monica's reactions, Lexi quietly spoke to her design team and the dressmaking staff to finalise the arrangements for the fittings and adjustments before retreating to her office. On the way there she questioned her actions, but again came to the conclusion they did not deserve her hatred as they were the wives of friends and subordinates of that b*stard that called himself her husband. They presented a design challenge that was fun for her and her team.

As she entered her office, shutting the door behind her Lexi knew there was a conversation she had to have. She pulled out her mobile and dialled John Nang. She had not had a quiet time to call him to talk about the whole situation. John knew the truth about almost everything, unlike her siblings, Phillip or her other friends. He would be able to help and support her much better than anyone else.

After a few rings John answered saying "Hi Lexi. what can I do for you?"

"John, I need to talk to you."

"You know Lexi, my door is open. What is troubling you?"

"It has to deal with that so-called husband of mine."

Hearing that, John understood this was a conversation that could not occur on the phone. "Lexi where are you?"

"I need to talk to you now."

"I am guessing you are at your studio. Give me fifteen minutes and I will be there. This is a conversation that I do not want to have on the telephone."

"John…"

"No Lexi. Matthew will kill me so let me come over."

With that John ended the telephone. Hearing this Lexi paused and then quietly started to curse not only Matthew for placing her in this mess but John for aiding him. However rather than letting herself be too distracted she turned to the piece of paper in front of her and started to sketch the design that had hit her for an infant onesie. Yes, Onesies were everywhere, but this one she knew she wanted to ensure was from organically grown cotton, but it was the patterns, and the little features that she would put in it that would ensure it remained a classic piece for the collection.

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