| Fashion do’s and
don’ts with a dash of the 80’s Ashley Cole, ‘10 | Staff Reporter | |
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Morrisville State College celebrated breast cancer awareness month with a Do’s and Don’ts fashion show. The show was sponsored by RHA, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Foundation. All profits from the show will be donated to the cancer research foundation. The show was hosted by Morrisville students Rashida Clarke and Jocelyn Omari. "The show was to present fashions that are appropriate to wear for all seasons while at the same time promoting and helping out a good cause," Omari said. She says they have been planning the show every since the summer and been doing a lot of work to get the gym, models and music. "The show was very successful, I’m happy everybody came out to watch what we and the students put together,’ said Omari. The musical entertainment was performed by Morrisville students Kiara, Swift, and up-and-coming Spanish group Ctoonz. Clark did a similar fashion show last year in Stewart hall, but it was a lot smaller and she said this year she wanted to go bigger and better. On-looker Catherine Hughes said the show was awesome and wishes Morrisville had more events like it. "I liked the clothes and the themes," she said. "I liked the music and even though I didn’t know anyone in the show I thought all the models were pretty." The show consisted of many do’s and don’ts of various fashion styles such as preppy clothing, business clothing, winter clothing and the proper ways to wear scarf’s. The show also did a tribute to the 80’s where models wore colorful clothing, lots of jewelry and models ripped the runway with 80’s dances to 80’s music. Models wore torn clothing, boots with shorts and non-matching clothing to present the don’ts and well kept clothing with accessories to present the do’s. Some of every clothing line from Ed Hardy to spunky fashions from H&M and Forever 21, with many shoe lines from Aldo to Steve Madden were worn in the show. Model Joanne Roc sported clothing which she created herself, but she has no plans of making her clothing officially known. "I just put stuff together; it’s nothing much." Roc said with a bashful smile. She said she entered the show just as something to do as an extracurricular activity, but she can see herself going further. "At first I was nervous, but the more I came out I got use to walking in front of everyone looking at me, but it felt good." Every model hit the scene looking fabulous, but backstage in the fitting room was not pretty. "Backstage was crazy," said Roc. "There was no time to have fun backstage; depending on how fast the song was is how long we had to change; all I could hear was my name being called felt like every 5 minutes." Sophomore Alicia Morrison said she did the show because she loves fashion, but is glad that all the proceeds went to a good cause. "I’m really interested in fashion so just about anything that has to do with fashion I’ll do. She said. "I’m glad that it’s going to breast cancer research, who knows we might save someone’s life." |