The Pins and Needles Sewing Club, sponsored by Dickens County 4-H,l held a Fashion Day Camp last week in Lubbock. The group’s first stop was the Ronald McDonald House, to take all of the can tabs and toiletries the club had collected all year to help in the charity’s fund-raising efforts.
Visitors then went to the Texas Tech Museum and visited with Dr. Marian Ann Montgomery, the textiles curator, who guided them through the new 1920s exhibit, the quilt exhibit, and explained about piecing and applique, and hand quilting.
In the museum’s archives, participants were able to go down to the archives and look at things that may or may not ever be on display due to their age. Child’s corsets, antique lace, feedsack clothing, a dress worn by Lady Bird Johnson, antique hats and wedding gowns, were among the treasures preserved there—and Dickens 4-H got a sneak peek at the new exhibit in which they’ll be featured.
At lunch at Rosa’s, the club met up with Texas 4-H Fashion Ambassadors Jeri Holcomb and Claire Lostroh, we discussed the fashion show category of re-fashion, how to take an existing garment and turn it into something new and different—and explored the category of fantastic finds under $25 dollars and had fun putting outfits together “on the cheap.”
Club members put their newfound knowledge into action at the Plato’s Closet store, trying to find affordable outfits that were classy and checking out some crazy fashions and how they could be turned into something more fitting to current taste was a lot of fun.
Itwasafunandveryproductiveday. Thanks go to Dr. Montgomery at the TTU museum and to the area’s Texas 4-H Fashion and Interior Design Ambassadors. Thanks also go to Kayleigh for helping chaperone and Plato’s Closet for letting the young shoppers spend so much time there.
