Creativity sparks laughter

 If laughter is good medicine, there should be healthier people in Foxwood Farms because of the Spring Fling Luncheon and Fashion Show last week.

Michel Northsea

If one hat is good, then more must be better. Sue Reudemann showed her Red Hat Society spirit by wearing six red hats on the outfit she modeled during the Foxwood Farms community’s Spring Fling Fashion Show and Luncheon. Several red visor caps were wrapped around her legs too.

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Michel Northsea

The Spring Fling Fashion Show at Foxwood Farms found models wearing outfits that took fashion terms literally. Myra Hernandez modeled a shirt with “balloon sleeves” in this year’s show. She also added a few balloons to her hat for good measure.

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JoAnn Potts folds up the “cardigan” she modeled, along with a poodle skirt, during the recent Spring Fling Fashion Show and Luncheon at Foxwood Farms. The different greeting cards turn the sweater in a “cardigan” for the spoof type fashion show.

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So what should one wear to the gym? Why Jim shorts, of course - especially when your husband’s name is Jim. Carol Vande Velde shows off her “Jim” shorts along with a “turtleneck” shirt. She was a model in Foxwood Farms community’s Spring Fling Fashion Show and Luncheon recently.

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Is that a map pinned to Mary Lou Bowles shorts? Yes it is because they are “Bermuda” shorts. She is wearing a eyelet shirt because of the googly eyes stuck onto the shirt by the organizers of the annual Spring Fling Fashion Show and Luncheon at Foxwood Farms.

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Pretty colored flowers and decorative birdhouse decorated the luncheon tables at the Spring Fling Fashion Show and Luncheon at Foxwood Farms last week. Mildred Wicks, left, and Gray Fawn Reed, right, admire the centerpieces.

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Laughter was often heard as models strutted down the runaway, the center aisle of the community center, in their fashionable attire.

Outfits for the show were pulled together by clever minds, twisting the words normally used to describe a piece of clothing, said Cheryl Gowan, one of the organizers of the annual event.

She was dressed in a “pin-stripped suit” for the show. Her yellow pant-and-shirt combo was accented with pink stripes. Pretty pins were randomly pinned on her outfit to make the “pin” portion of the outfit.

Mary Lou Bowls modeled Bermuda shorts with coordinating eyelet shirt for her walk down the runaway. The Bermuda shorts were blue with maps of the Bermuda area, pinned to her shorts. The eyelet shirt was created by sticking googly eyes to her plain yellow blouse.

A small toy boat hung from the neckline of the “boat neck” shirt worn by Marge Morosko.

How do you turn a regular sweater into a cardigan? Why, by taping greeting cards so that they hang all over the sweater, of course.  JoAnn Potts worn the “cardigan” paired with a blue poodle skirt. The poodle skirt look was completed by pinning a stuffed poodle to the skirt.

For an outfit with ‘raglan” sleeves, “rags” were pinned to the shoulder seam of the shirt worn by Mary Ann Perotta. Her coordinating skirt was of “a-line” styling because of the line of tape running down the length of the skirt. Cut-outs of the letter “A” taped to the line completed the look.

Other models taking fashion to a new level during the show included, Maralyn Chapin, Carolyn Jeanotte, Beckie Brasseuer, Sue Redemann, Myra Hernandez, Carol Vande Velde and Claire Couture.

Not all the fashions modeled during the show came from a play on words.

Evelyn Acker modeled an outfit she had collected from thrift stores and the Quail Meadow community-wide yard sale. Her total ensemble of a sparkly shirt, slacks and gold and silver shoes cost all of $4. Besides the Quail Meadow yard sale, Acker shopped the St. Mark’s Thrift Store for her fashionable finds.

Green Bay Packer fan Sally Black showed her true colors during the show. She was decked out in green and gold without spending lots of green on her outfit that screamed “Go Packers.” Her outfit $5.95 – winning the big game - priceless, said other Green Bay fans.