Community Corner
Fashion Forward Charity
One senior project turned sundresses and stilettos into funds for a local charity.
The speeches were made. The music was cued. And I was the one deemed to walk through that curtain first. Time to strut my stuff on the runway. Sure, there were less than fifty people in the crowd but ask me if my nerves cared. I am no model, but for this senior project that didn’t matter; I was asked and so it was. All for the sake of a greater good, with much time and effort expended on this adventure, senior Emma Price allowed me, along with six other girls, to become her models for a fashion show extravaganza.
It all started over the summer. Emma Price was one of the few seniors who took the newly arisen opportunity to work on her senior project before the school year commenced which had never previously been permitted at
“I decided to do my senior project in the summer first of all because it makes the most sense concerning school,” Price said. “Since I did it in the summer, I have been able to focus more on school [during the school year]. Also, because I did my fashion project in the summer, I was able to do summer clothes which are much more fun and less drab.”
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Price held a fashion show at the Trammell Carmichael Community Services Center in Hickory Flat on Sept. 25, after working a total 112 hours to complete all of the outfits and the show.
“I chose doing a fashion show because I love clothes and making clothes,” Price said. “I thought it would be a great way to get this mandatory project out of the way while having fun. And I mean, when else would you be able to have a fashion show without actually having a career in fashion?"
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The admission to the show was $2 per person and Emma Price raised over $200 to benefit the Cherokee County Foster and Adoptive Parent Association.
“I picked that charity because foster children and orphaned children have always been very close to my heart,” Price said. “Every year my mother and I choose one or two foster children to give Christmas presents to in a program called secret Santa, and I have always wondered what else I could do for these poor children who ask for things like socks and jackets. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity.”