The annual Grads for Gowns fashion show is coming up fast.
It takes place this Thursday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. at the Fine Arts Theatre (also known as the Transcanada Theatre).
As always, models will be modeling gowns and other grad-related attire during the event, which is organized by the Olds High School Interact Club.
Girls who will be graduation this spring can attend the show and choose a gown they would like to wear.
On Oct. 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., they can come to the theatre and try on the gowns they like. Alterations can be done to them. Seamstresses will be available.
“The models will be holding up numbers. So you can say, ‘I like dress number 12' and the next day, you can come back, look at dress number 12 and try it on yourself,” Hayley Dreger of the Interact Club says.
Organizers are looking for gowns that can be donated for the program. Please make sure they're clean. Formal wear for both boys and girls will be accepted.
Here's how you can help.
Drop off a grad gown (or formal wear for males) to the high school nearest you. They'll be picked up today (Oct. 18) and tomorrow (Oct. 19). Gowns dropped off at high schools north of Olds will be picked up Oct. 18. Those donated to high schools south of Olds will be picked up on the Oct. 19.
Gowns can also be traded for clean jewellery. Contact Tane Skotheim at 403-586-8277 ([email protected]) or Karen Grudeski at 403-335-4568 ([email protected]) for details.
“The jewellery will be sold that night (during the fashion show Oct. 27),” Dreger says, adding a big booth will be set up featuring hand-made jewellery.
On the night of the fashion show, members of the public can support Gowns for Grads by purchasing jewellery. Fifty per cent of the proceeds will go to the GFG program Interact Club. The other half will go to the Interact Club.
Skylar Sawatzky of the Interact Club says there's a need for all formal wear, but especially formal wear for boys.
“(They're) accepting tuxes and stuff because currently they only have two of them,” Sawatzky said at the time she and Dreger were interviewed.
Dreger and Sawatzky said they need lots of models – boys and girls.
“We can show them the sizes. We can get their size and match them and they'll model that,” Sawatzky says.
Generally high school students volunteer to serve as models, but Dreger says in the past Grade 9 students have modeled too.
"You can say, 'I like dress number 12' and the next day, you can come back, look at dress number 12 and try it on yourself."HAYLEY DREGEROLDS INTERACT CLUB
