You know your trainer, you know your posing coach. You know your nutritionist, gym buds, mua, tanning peeps, and hair stylist, BUT ! You don’t know ME from Adam! The name’s Ellen Holmes, and the story is 👇🏼
Well, the suit biz journey had a long and winding road! The first memory I have of sewing, I must have been maybe 3? My parental unit gave me a plastic grid with a big plastic needle and some yarn. Ya girl was HOOKED!
At 7-8 I was making dolly clothes by hand from old clothes, sheets, anything that looked remotely like fabric, lol!
Age 11- my older sister was given a sewing machine for her birthday. She was enthused about it for maybe a hot minute, then it was MINE. Having had no sewing lessons, I made lots of clothes I thought were killer, but… I won’t go there. I cringe at the thought that I ever wore them. I had a great sewing teacher thru high school and learned a ton. At that time, I just bought patterns from fabric stores.
Thru a couple marriages, a lot of crappy jobs, and moving numerous times, I always had my trusty sewing machine!
I had a baby and believe me when I tell you she was THE best dressed baby in my creations! I won a sewing contest, learned how to embroider, tat lace, and smock. The baby turned 3 and started dance lessons. The studio owner knew I made all her cute clothes, and asked me if I would make some costumes for a couple of recital numbers. Girls, I flew by the seat of my pants, but the dancers were happy! The next year, I did about half the recital, and then realized I couldn’t wing it anymore. Found a pattern drafting course, and signed on. Legit the BEST move I ever made!
If any of you have kids who dance, you know there’s always switching to other dance studios. So people from my daughters studio told their new studio about my designs, and I ended up taking on most of the studios in South Florida. My teachers at pattern school meanwhile, allowed me to work on costumes and show my face once a week to get my grade on the costumes. It took me 3 years to complete a 9 month course.
Then, a mom from one of those new studios approached me to be a partner in a venture to create a dance costume catalog. We opened a factory in FL, and catalogues went to every dance studio in FL, and Canada.
Now what this all leads up to is, while running the factory, I got it into my fool head to compete in a figure competition. Pure mishigas, I must have been nuts. After researching what figure suits look like, I made a pattern , hopped onstage, won my first show, and everyone backstage wants a suit! TBH, I liked making suits better than dealing with dance moms, so…. Another cray cray move. Quit the factory, made my own website by myself, aaaaand, as it’s said, the rest is HISTORY.
LONG road but it led me to where I am now. …. and my passion shows in every bikini that leaves here👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙👙and yup, that’s me up👆🏻on the blog header!
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