Day 2

Today was my first full day (10-5) at Pesavento and holy hell did I work! The very first thing Emily assigned me was buying just an extra yard of lining for a dress that must be exactly that shade of navy. I went to Lining Club to buy it and was shown 2 navies that were too dark. So, I swatched it and returned. It was indeed too dark so she sent me to Guide Fabrics to find it. Luckily, the guy there found the perfect one and gave me that yard for free. Sadly, I was informed upon returning that the sample piece of lining was the wrong shade. The only piece of lining that was wrongly cut. I then ran back to Lining Club and lo and behold the dark navy was perfect. Glad to be done with the 1-hour ordeal, I moved on to my next assignment. It was Emily's main focus to have finished by today. I was to find black and brown (12 in each color) silk roses in 3 sizes. I ran back and forth through 5th-8th Ave, 28th-40th St, for just under 5 hours trying to find that brown flower, especially. Alas, NO ONE carried brown silk flowers. I found only 2 stores, and one did not have 12 (minimum order for more would be 100) and the other was too expensive. Funny thing was that the first store was the first I found, and the second was the last I found. Either was I was running all day trying desperately to find a brown silk flower! Finally I returned at 4pm with large black flowers from a hat store on 28th and cheap black medium flowers from YKK Trimming. My last task was to find out whether we could order from the original carrier of all the flowers.... the company had shut down. I instead went to 2 neighboring flower shops and found the prices for spray paint and rose buds. Let's see if tomorrow I get to stay inside the company!