Smithy Sodine

Yes, I went to FIT for about a couple of years, maybe two, three years part-time.

I was really close to graduation.

Then I got married, had a child, your wife, and decided that I wanted to move out of New York City.

So, and we moved to the suburbs and there was no fashion industry in the suburbs.

And I really didn't want to travel back and forth to work in the city.

Then I stayed at home.

I became a stay-at-home mom for about three or four years.

Then I realized, oh, wow, I'm raising a child, but I don't have enough information to raise her.

What am I going to do?

Like, when she needs knowledge, how am I going to help her and so on?

I'm like, okay, fine.

I'll go to school to become a teacher.

So I went to school, did a dual major, English, Lit, and Education.

I actually went to school for 10 years while I was raising my kids and actually wound up with a master's degree in linguistics.

Then it really helped having children.

But I always sewed or did alterations for my neighbors.

And there were vests were in style in the 1990s.

So I made vests and sewed them on the side.

So I was always sewing, doing something in that field.

So when...