The annual Gowns For Grads fashion show and gala is coming up fast.
It takes place this Thursday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. at the TransCanada Theatre in the Fine Arts and Multi-Media Centre.
As always, models will be modelling gowns and other grad-related attire during the event, which is organized by the Olds High School Interact Club.
Girls who will be graduating this spring can attend the show and choose a gown they would like to wear.
“The gowns and suits are available for a reduced fee,” says Tane Skotheim of Olds High School, staff advisor of the Interact Club at the school. The club is co-ordinating the event.
“If a family is experiencing difficulty we ‘gift' the dress or suit and the family is not asked to pay,” she adds.
“When families are able to purchase the dresses, the funds we raise are used to cover the costs of maintaining the program.”
On Oct. 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., interested students can try on the gowns they like. Seamstresses will be available to do alterations if necessary.
“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.
“The jewelry will be sold that night (during the fashion show Oct. 27),” Dreger says, adding a big booth will be set up featuring handmade jewelry.
On the night of the fashion show, members of the public can support Gowns for Grads by purchasing jewelry. Fifty per cent of the proceeds will go to the GFG program. The other half will go to the Interact Club.
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 modelled 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
