Everyday Girls Modelling Program

In my first Lookbook I had a range of photos of my youngest daughter, when she was in Grade 5 and 6 and it was to promote my special occasion dresses I made. As she is now much older, it was time to look for some new faces. I decided I wanted to find a group of girls who had not modelled before, but were happy to be photographed having fun while wearing my dresses.

As I talked to people about my business and how I was starting the photo sessions, I had many offers of girls willing to be a part of this. In the end, what I thought was going to hard, became easy and I quickly had 5 girls for fittings. So without any prior meeting, I arranged fittings times and worked out which dresses would fit each of the girls, who ages ranged from 9 to 13. It is important to me that the girls feel comfortable, so I found a photographer who had worked with families and children before, and progressively scheduled 3 photoshoots, to cover all the types of photos I needed.
For this age group, I didn’t want the girls to wear make-up, just to look natural and that they could wear their hair the way they felt comfortable. There were 2 photoshoots at the Boutique and 1 at the photographer’s studio. The fun part exceeded my expectations and I was so happy when the girls all told me what fun they had. The Mothers all followed up with me and had really appreciated a great experience for their daughters.
The one particularly special moment for me was at the end of a long afternoon at the studio, we were photographing the 7th scene, and it was the very last photo of the day. It was a group photo of 4 of the girls around a pretty pink table setting for the party dress scene and the youngest girls said, “Can we hug?”. That said it all, the girls put their arms around each other and that made it feel like it was a greatly successful day.
If you know any girls 9 to 15 years old who would be interested to be a part of the ongoing photoshoots, for social media, the website and advertising material, please email me, sue@betweenforgirls.com.au
I spoke with the girls after the photoshoots and here are some of the things they said:

Q. Which photoshoot did you enjoy the most and why?
A. I really enjoyed all of the photoshoots but my favourite would have to be the most recent photoshoot, as there was a bigger variety of clothes and I also got to wear the winter collection which is new to the store.
Q. Have these photoshoots worked around your sport and school commitments ok?
A. The photoshoots have never clashed with any sport or school commitments that I have, which is really good because then I won’t stress or worry about falling behind at school.
Q. Would you tell a friend the photoshoots were: scary or exciting, hard work or easy, difficult or fun?
A. I would definitely tell my friends that the photoshoot was exciting, fun and an amazing experience as I have never done anything like it before.
Q. Did Fi, make you feel comfortable the way she directed you and how she photographed you?
A. Yes, Fi was very friendly and I never felt uncomfortable when she was telling me how to stand.
Q. What was the funniest thing that happened during the photoshoots?
A. The funniest thing that happened during the photo shoots was when you and Georgia threw all the confetti on us.
Q. Which photoshoot did you enjoy the most and why?
A. I most enjoyed the first one because all the props and group shots were really fun.
Q. Would you tell a friend the photoshoots were: boring or exciting, hard work or easy, difficult or fun?
A. I would tell a friend the photo shoots were exciting, easy and fun.
Q. Which photoshoot did you enjoy the most and why?
A. I enjoyed the first photo shoot with the bigger group. I particularly enjoyed the flower girl scene because we got to use confetti and confetti is awesome!
Q. What was the funniest thing that happened during the photoshoots?
A. The funniest thing was when we were throwing the confetti everywhere and it got in our hair.
Q. Would you tell a friend the photoshoots were: scary or exciting, hard work or easy, difficult or fun?
A. Exciting (because it was something different that I hadn’t done before), easy (but it still felt like work), fun (because I was with other people).
Q. Which photoshoot did you enjoy the most and why?
A. I loved the one where we went to the studio because we got to do lots of different scenes.
Q. What was the funniest thing that happened during the photoshoots?
A. The funniest thing that happened is when we got to do the confetti and they were putting it on to my hair bun.
Q. Would you tell a friend the photoshoots were: boring or exciting, hard work or easy, difficult or fun?
A. I would tell a friend that it was so exciting, hard but not too hard, like I can do it, but like medium and it is also really fun. I would also tell them that they should do something like it.
Thank your letting me do the photoshoot it is so so so so so so so so so so fun.