When I first met you, when you came up to me, after a talk I gave and pitched this story idea,

in my mind, and you can correct if I'm wrong here, you are wearing like fuzzy leg warmers and a little skirt.

Does this sound right?

That is close because I do remember exactly what I was wearing because I thought about it.

I had this fuzzy knit

skirt and a trench coat and I think I was wearing really tall boots. Okay. You have a very unique

sense of style. Well, thank you. Which is all just framing to say, I'm kind of surprised you grew up

with a uniform. Yes. My name is Grace framing to say, I'm kind of surprised you grew up with a uniform.

Yes.

My name is Grace Tarducci.

I am an independent filmmaker and animator and a former Catholic school student. So I went to Catholic school from kindergarten to 12th grade.

And my style identity was very closely tied to my personal identity at the time, which was definitely,

like, rebelling.

And so I was pretty good at experimenting with what was technically within the bounds of the dress code,

as was written, but was still pushing it too far. You can't have been the only one messing with

the, the whole thing is like Catholic schoolgirls roll up their skirts. Like surely everybody was doing this.

Yes, obviously. That is a typical thing to do. Everyone pretty much does that. And I would very much over-accessorize my uniform, like wearing a lot of jewelry,

or trying to get away with pattern tights, and I would dye my hair a lot lot and heavy makeup, you know, peace love and

rock and roll over here. And they really did not know what to do. Like I was getting in trouble

so much. They hired a dean of discipline at the school. And they said that was partially because of my uniform infractions.

And the first thing that he ever had to do formally at the school was take me aside into a room

and tell me I had to dye my hair to a natural color. My hair was it? It was red and it wasn't even that bad. Like I've had

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