Smithy Sodine
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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...