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Spring day brightened by VIA Fashion Show

April 29, 2017

The Village Improvement Association's seventh annual Spring Fashion Show took place at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club April 22.

The show featured apparel from local stores that were expertly modeled by VIA members. For the first time, the runway also showcased outfits designed, made and worn by talented students of Cape Henlopen High School.

Appropriately themed April Showers Bring May Flowers, the luncheon event's attendees viewed the spectacle surrounded by the rain-splashed windows of Rehoboth Beach Country Club's dramatic bay-front ballroom. The annual show is a major fundraiser for the VIA; the proceeds of this popular event will go to help support local art, education, conservation, public and international issues, and health projects and institutions, vital interests of the association.

Chairwomen Theda Blackwelder and Roxanne Nelson, no strangers to fashion themselves, deftly opened the program and turned the microphone over to Drexel Davison, CEO of Bad Hair Day?, who wielded his considerable wit and charm to narrate the show. Escorts Sam Cooper, Harry Keswani, Jay Pastore, Stu Schmidt, and Tom Wontorek, each representing an area of interest of the VIA, accompanied the models to the runway. The VIA fashion models, volunteers all, wore stunning designs provided by Rehoboth's Brides 2 Be, Funky Lady, and Simply Dressed; Lewes's Deanna's and Piccolino; and Bethany Beach's Japanesque and Water Lili. Bad Hair Day? donated the services of hair stylist Neely Harris and Lesslee Belmore, make-up artist .

The VIA welcomed students from the Cape Henlopen High School Textiles and Clothing Program, a course in which the students learn pattern design, fashion, fabric selection and development of sewing skills. The five outstanding scholars modeled their own creative and chic outfits that highlighted their individual styles and considerable skills.

Chairwomen Blackwelder and Nelson closed the event by thanking all of the students, supporters, stores, donors, organizers, volunteers and attendees who made the fashion show such a great success.

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