Girl Guides Fashion Show Celebrates 100 years
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By Jessica Pickering
The leaders and members of the local Girl Guides hosted a 100 year anniversary celebration fashion show on Sunday. The event took place at Williams Lake Secondary School from 1pm until 3pm. Visitors attending this event were asked to bring a non-perishable food item or cash donation, to be divided between the local food bank and the Canadian World Friendship Fund.
The hallway inside the entrance to the school, as well as along the commons, was covered with posters and pictures with facts and past events of Guides history. A table was set up with books, guides, badges, information and timelines about the various uniforms used from as early as 1910. Nancy Sootheran, district treasurer and region archivist, had collected Guides uniforms and information about the history of the uniforms over the past 100 years.
Natalie Montoya, member of city council, started off the fashion show by welcoming everyone on behalf of our mayor and the City of Williams Lake. Our local Sparks, Brownies, Girl Guides and Pathfinders from ages five to 17 then walked the ‘runway’, modelling the various styles of uniforms from 1910 to present day, while Nancy and Christine Constabel, the area deputy commissioner, read commentary about each outfit. During the intermission, guests were welcome to tea, coffee, and cake; Nancy and her Guide helpers read Girl Guides trivia questions, and the audience members who answered correctly won a Girl Guides crest. For the finale, Guides had been challenged to design a futuristic uniform that they might wear in 2060. All of the girls’ designs were displayed on the wall to the back of the commons room. The winning design was modelled at the conclusion of the fashion show. Some of the details of this future uniform were a bracelet, which with a push of a button would display holographic badges; the red brim hat had a notebook and pen in the bottom of the brim; and it was stated that future Girl Guides would be given wings as a mode of transportation (after getting their permit, of course.)
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