After school

Education is a continuous process. That’s why our company organizes various courses, such as: fashion design, aesthetics, manual creation of textile decorative objects and clothing. These courses, but also the Summer schools, are meant to offer the children and students an alternative for spending the free time in a useful, pleasant and constructive way.
 
 
"The often meetings that I have with the children, the teachers and the parents for designing the school uniforms give me the opportunity to approach the theme of the Romanian clothing, with links to the national costumes. Most of them believe these are clothes that the artists wear during the shows and they don’t know these used to be the regular, daily clothes, the festive clothes, that individualized us through their design, decorative patterns, chromatics, texture and that through them, the popular author reached the perfection in art. Having the belief that the tradition transmits from generation to generation – if these kids do not know it, it means we didn’t do our duty – I initiated the vestimentary aesthetics courses at Colegiul Banatean, through this notice: 
 
 
Every Wednesday, between 3 and 5 p. m., in the Festive Room, there will be the courses of Aesthetic Education, putting accent on the Romanian tradition and art. If there are grandparents willing to help me with knowledge, objects or their simple presence, they are welcome. We want to help our grandchildren to know how we used to speak or dance, how we used to wear less and healthier clothes, that we used to love and respect our parents and grandparents, that we wished them to carry on the best we had and we still have inside.  
 
 
Due to the great number of children (about 100) that used to come to the courses and to the fact I hadn’t anybody to help me, I also had to go during the ability classes, at the request of some interested teachers (the 1st – the 4th forms). During a whole year, as often as it was possible, I worked with about 1.000 students from 10 schools and I also had two Summer schools in Liebling and Becicherec. This year, we’ll have the Summer school “Traditions and Identity”. It will take place in July, at our company’s office. 

Leontina Olah, G.M.