brought up the opportunity, the decision to enter was easy. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cBefore taking this class, I saw menswear as a little more boring and thought that there wasn't as much room to be creative within it because when I think of what men typically wear, it's typically dress shirts and t-shirts and not a whole lot else, but in this class I found that the details were really cool to me,\u201d Hyer says. \u201cThose really subtle things can make something unique.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nShe says the menswear class gave her the foundational skills to design a technical garment. Dr. Annett-Hitchcock also served as a valuable resource and mentor. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cShe helped me keep in contact with different people who were great resources to me for materials and helped me find out more information about the competition. Any design challenge I had, I knew I could reach out to her.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nWith this experience under her belt, Hyer says a career path in technical wear has opened up for her. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cI hadn't really thought about it before the competition presented itself,\u201d Hyer says. \u201cI just saw it as an opportunity to try something new and different, but I really enjoyed the whole process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kori Hyer is receiving international recognition for an avalanche rescue suit she created as a student. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"caption\":\"\",\"displayCategoryID\":2134}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[511,742,490,502,496],"tags":[2201,1875,2481,734,2500,2501,2502,585,1382],"class_list":["post-17849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-honors-and-awards","category-newswire","category-our-people","category-student-success","category-tatm","tag-b-s-fashion-and-textile-design","tag-department-of-textile-and-apparel-technology-and-management","tag-dr-kate-annett-hitchcock","tag-fashion-and-textile-design","tag-pca-vision","tag-pciaw","tag-professional-clothing-industry-association-worldwide","tag-tatm","tag-wilson-college-of-textiles"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"
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