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Pencil skirts, A-line gowns, V-waists, peek-a-boo blouses. Have you ever wondered why the tides of fashion seem to favor one cut over another? Why is one article of clothing suddenly de rigueur, while another perfectly decent one falls from grace? The secret machinations of taste and style are shackled to trends and kitsch. For the curious there is but one choice: to enter the belly of the fashion beast.
The best way into this brave new world is to get your papers in order. Short of a degree from a prestigious fashion design academy, the aspiring fashionista should pursue a degree in fashion merchandising. This will pave the way to reasonably exciting careers in specialty stores, boutiques, national department stores, discount chains, wholesale apparel dealers and clothing design studios. A graduate will have to endure a hectic lifestyle: constantly on the go, meeting new clients, fabric venders, seamstresses, models, buyers, and more. This will entail long hours, constant travel, and incredible amounts of stress. The sobering reality is that success or failure depends on the quality and attractiveness of any given collection and any given season.
The best fashion merchandising academies include rigorous courses designed to familiarize students with the various types of retailers, direct marketing strategies, and consumer buying trends. It is essential that fashionistas understand the psychology of consumers, as well as the sociology of buying, not to mention the history of fashion as it relates to popular purchasing trends. It’s a reoccurring word for a reason, and a word can make or break all fashion houses and boutiques: trends. Understand the trends, and you can look forward to a long and prosperous career in fashion.
With more than a million retail stores and boutiques in the United States alone, a highly motivated and skilled fashionista has the pick of the litter when it comes to making a decent wage. They enjoy careers as apparel buyers, personal shoppers (for executives and celebrities), specialty managers, manufacturer representatives, fashion directors, and fashion stylists. The key is not to get locked into any one role, but to understand the totality of this fickle industry.
The projected earning power of a degreed fashionista, according to Salary.com, is somewhere in the range of $28,000 and $60,000, depending on location. The U.S. Department of Labor claims retail managers and merchandisers have the potential to earn a medium salary of $72,000. High-end boutiques in New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles will pay more handsomely, of course, than stores in Middle America, but making the right impression always includes having the right degree. Take the right degree, a nose for trends, and mix in the X factor of determination, and you have all the building blocks for fashion success. It’s a tremendously competitive industry and navigating its murky waters is not for the faint of heart or thinned-skin. Take heed now, before you embark, and make sure you’ve got a degree that can open the right doors.
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ya niggaz in high school, and stop lyin, u probably got p-millers and birdman shoes! broke *** sharecropper…like i sed, WE AIN’T TALKIN BOUT COMMUNITY COLLEGES. NOR JUNIOR COLLEGES/ VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS…….nigga.
Educators say they need more resources to answer Obama’s call
: Colleges, adult schools and vocational programs .. http://tinyurl.com/caqyxb
Australian Vocational ed all levels so notionally adults but als use in VET in schools so used by students as young as 13-14
We really need vocational ed back in schools if we want to stop the drop out rates.
When I went to tech center in holland mich I took the auto body course for two years and we painted them for a donation to the class. It may sound cheap but remember it is students painting your car so it more than likely wont be perfect. But if your not worried about that do it, it would help the kids gain some real on hand practice…and practice makes perfect…..or at least it should lol.
New Jersey vocational schools have an updated sense of purpose, luring the best students from public schools and angering some local superintendents.
i dunno. insufficient promotions? i thought we outsource this kind of work. so that schooling wasn't needed.
News: Vocational schools are costly, but are they worth it? - McClatchy Wash…
hella lucky! damn vocational schools…
Got Tuition? is a national, nonpartisan campaign bringing the issue of college affordability and the long term impacts of student loan debt to the forefront of our national debate. The costs of higher education and career training are skyrocketing. If our nation is to maintain its status in the world, we must ensure access to our colleges, vocational schools and universities to everyone who wants to pursue the dream of higher education.
Part contest, part job fair, the event was a chance to link up with potential employers and check out vocational schools and training programmes. Visitors could watch the contestants at work and try their hand at giving an injection, … the organisers are looking to make EuroSkills a regular event, held in a different country every two years. Other EU initiatives to promote vocational education include a conference for apprentices, to be held in Paris in October. …
L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia/Vocational Schools in Canada
Because our public education system and even some popular fairy tales have patterned us to believe that being rich is, in and of itself, a crime against everyone else.
Schools - even good ones - don’t encourage kids to get wealthy or even to shoot for the stars, at least not in my experience. My high school wasn’t bad, but I can’t recall a single time when my teachers or counselors ever encouraged me to strive for maximum success.
My high school counselors encouraged me to go to a certain vocational school. Nothing at all against vocational schools, but I graduated nearly top of my class and easily made it in to a four year University. Instead of encouraging me on the path towards a vocational school, I wish they’d taken me aside as a Freshman and tried setting me on a path for Harvard or something.
Also, consider the timeless children’s classic: Robin Hood. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know about Robin Hood. If you examine the story with historical context in mind, you understand that the Robin Hood archetype should really be presented as a hero fighting against a OPPRESSIVE and CORRUPT aristocracy.
But instead, what do you remember? If you were to explain Robin Hood in a single sentence, you would probably say “He steals from the rich and gives to the poor”. In other words, he steals from the EVIL RICH and gives to the DOWNTRODDEN POOR.
Hence, being rich is, in and of itself, an evil. Whereas being poor is, in and of itself, due to unfair societal conditions.
This is to say nothing of the actual historical evidence of Robin Hood, which portrays him as a violent and quick-tempered individual and probably a murderer (so says Wikipedia).
Think I’m reaching? Hey, just examine your own post for a second. You said “if the government gives tax cuts to the rich”. The key word that jumps out there is “gives”.
The rich already earned that money! It’s not even logistically possible for the government to “give” someone money that they’ve already earned. No matter which way you frame it, there is no “GIVING” involved, it’s only “TAKING LESS”.
When it comes to taxes, words and ideas matter. Anyone who’s in favor of progressive taxation is essentially saying it’s OK for the government to treat certain citizens differently based solely on their economic success. It seems as though Republicans and Democrats alike feel that freedom costs more if you’re rich.
Why is the graduation rate so low?
Is it because of the students that go to the schools, or the education they receive there?
I would venture to say that it is mostly the students and their families/parents fault that the graduation rate is so low.
If you take the kids from Burgard and switch them with the kids from Williamsville East, guess which school will have the higher graduation rate? And guess what, Williamsville would have to raise their taxes and spend more per pupil than they already do to fund the special education classes that would be required.
I get sick of reading about how bad the city school district is. Is it perfect? No. It certainly has issues, and needs to improve, but the primary problem facing the city schools is the city’s students.
Kids from good families who want to learn do very well in the City Schools, as the district is large enough to offer programs to suit a wide variety of students needs. City Honors, Hutch Tech, Performing Arts, Da Vinci, Emerson, and the other vocational schools all offer good programs that are taken advantage of by many children.