Aria's plan worked. By the time Helen and Aria reached the room where students were being fitted for their uniforms, the line had considerably shortened as most of the students had gone for lunch.
As Aria entered the room leading Helen, she saw there were three people in the room. One was definitely the tailor, as he measured the students with his measuring tape and muttered the numbers, which were being jotted down by a young woman, who seemed to be his assistant.
The last person in the room was an old man with a receding hairline. He sat in a corner of the room looking at the students. Aria assumed that he had to be a staff of the academy, by the brooch on his chest.
Aria's attention was drawn towards the head tailor again, as he finished measuring a boy and said, "Now, which one of the uniforms would you like?"
Aria was surprised, "They could choose their uniforms? That was new." Aria thought as the tailor moved aside to reveal six set of uniforms. They were all strangely same but different.
Three of them were dresses, one short, would come upto the middle thighs with short sleeves. This one was ocean blue in colour. The next dress was longer, it would fall down inches below your knees. It was sleevless, with frills and navy blue in colour.
The third dress was flowy and icy blue in colour. It had quarter sleeves and came down to one's shoes.
The other three uniforms were shirt and pants.
The first one was a simple set of white shirt and dark blue pants.
The second one, was icy blue shirt and pant, with a black coat.
The third one was a complete suit. It had a white shirt, and royal blue pants, tie, waist-coat and coat.
Aria watched the six set of uniforms as the boy in front of her went and stood before the third set of suit. He looked at it and then the second one, before finally deciding on the second, icy blue shirt and pants and black coat.
Aria watched as the assistant noted this down and put away the slip of paper.
Next, it was Helen's turn. The tailor asked Helen's name and the elements she would be studying, while measuring her sleeves. Helen told her name and that she would study water, fire and earth. The assistant jotted this down along with her measurements.
After he was done, the tailor moved aside and said, "Which uniform will you like?"
Helen turned towards Aria who walked upto her and explained all the six uniforms in detail.
Helen nodded and said to the tailor, "I'll take the long icy blue dress. Uniform six."
The uniforms were numbered from one to six, starting from the plain set of shirt pant to the dress Helen chose.
Helen then stood to one side as Aria walked up. The tailor began to his work, mumbling the same questions. Aria said in a clear voice, "Aria. I'll be studying water, earth and wind."
After he measurement was done, the tailor asked her which uniform she would like.
Aria crossed her arms as she looked at the uniforms.