I am a fashion design major. Sometimes for assignments we have to submit photos of either a model or ourselves wearing our finished designs, then our professor will respond with feedback. Now my most recent piece I’ve made are these stockings that come up to an already attached garter belt. I think it’s a really cute piece and I’m proud of it.
Now I tried finding someone to model it for me but it’s weird asking people to let you take pics of them in the lingerie you made. So I eventually realized I have to just model it myself. Not ideal because I’m shy, but ultimately no big deal. The problem was that I went through every one of my pairs of underwear and had basically nothing that went with what I had designed. Now submitting photos with un matching clothes risks completely obscuring what you were going for and ruining your grade. So even though I really really hated it, I was kinda forced to just model the stockings with no underwear. I hated it, but my professor is cool and professional and I knew she would get it and not judge. Besides, I could handle feeling awkward for one class period around my professor because she was the only other person to see those photos.
Or so I thought.
Now usually, you submit the photos and then the professor sends you her feedback through the online portal and that’s it. I assumed that was the case here. But then, two days after I submitted I go to class and she says we’re going to throw the photos of our work up on screen and discuss them together as a class. I panicked for a second, but then she said we probably would get to all of them and I was relieved. That had to mean she saw my pics, knew they weren’t exactly meant to be shown in class, and was going to skip me. Thank god.
So class is going and we go over 3 of my classmates designs and it’s all very pleasant. And then I hear my professor say my name, I look up at the screen and see a massive photo of my bare naked ass. I was MORTIFIED and could barely even breathe and my professor is asking me to talk about the design up in front of everyone. So I’m doing my best but am so embarrassed. The first few photos are from the waist down so no one knows it’s me yet. But as she keeps scrolling of course the wider photos with my face in full frame come onto the screen. I’m literally almost crying and not even listening to anyone’s feedback.
Finally she gets through all the pics. I’m about to excuse myself so I can drop out of school and then suddenly one of my classmates says “(name), you look really fucking good! Can you model my stuff next time?” And then everyone starts completing me and telling me I looked great and saying the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. And it felt really good. I actually felt really sexy. It’s girls and gay guys in the class (obviously) so I wasn’t about to score any dates but it still made me feel super sexy anyway!
Worst moment of my life turned into one of the better moments.
