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Models dress for garden wedding
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Photos by Dana Rene Bowler / Star staff Marjorie Rice, wearing hat at left, admires model Shirley Heller's outfit during the Leisure Village Women's Club Fashion Show. The theme of the 33rd annual event was wedding wear for mothers and grandmothers of the bride.
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Shirley Michel, left, and Judy Knox wear their Women's Club hats during the garden wedding fashion show. Special attendees at the event were a recently married 95-year-old Leisure Village woman and her 95-year-old husband.
Bold prints, bright sleeveless tops and light matching jackets highlighted the Leisure Village Women's Club Fashion Show on Thursday at Leisure Village in Camarillo.
The theme was garden wedding wear designed for mothers and grandmothers of brides as well as wedding guests and the brides themselves.
Six models from Leisure Village were chosen to model the clothing, which was from Chico's and David's Bridal.
Cathy Friedman, 77, modeled a floor-length champagne wedding gown sparkling with beads. The gown sported a matching beaded jacket.
"You don't think of yourself as 77, or whatever," Friedman said when asked the best tip she can give for modeling as a senior. "You just have a good time."
One of the outfits was a lime green and white floral skirt paired with a matching lime green sleeveless top and matching jacket. It was set off with a chunky lime green necklace.
"It's got a little sass going with that great necklace," commented narrator Heide Simonet, regional manager for Chico's.
Organizer Joyce Baker decided on the wedding theme to dovetail with the much-publicized May 31 wedding of a 95-year-old Leisure Village woman and her Camarillo groom, also 95. A reporter from Los Angeles TV station KCAL interviewed the couple just before their entrance and later broadcast the fashion show on KCAL's 4 p.m. news.
Just home from their local honeymoon, Willis "Rich" Richard and Bernice Jenkins Richard made a special guest appearance at the finale of the fashion show. The groom received a standing ovation after serenading his bride with the song "I Love You Truly," which he also sang at the wedding.
More than 200 people showed up for the fashion show, which Baker said was an unusually good turnout for the annual fundraising event.
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