By Alexis Jefferson, Contributing Writer
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia sponsored the Community Aid Catwalk on Nov. 15 in Stretansky Concert Hall as part of their philanthropy week of community inspired events.
Seven Greek organizations participated in the event, but there was only one victor. Each organization had at most three representatives including the model.
Each organization created an outfit from the Selinsgrove’s Community Aid with a $25 gift card as their budget.
Along with their outfits, most groups presented a video that showed their trip to Community Aid and their process in creating their outfit.
The first group, Zeta Tau Alpha, followed an early 2000s/Mean Girls theme. The outfit consisted of a magenta tank top with lace embroidery on the neck line, a light pink cardigan, sparkly silver heels and a fitted gray skirt.
Phi Mu Delta went with a ’70s theme. Their model wore flared pants, a black turtleneck with a black leather jacket and black shoes. For accessories they chose a brown wallet purse.
Sigma Kappa chose a neon ’80s themed look. Their model wore a neon green skirt, pink shoes, pink earrings and a brown metallic shirt that helped balance out the neon colors in the outfit.
Alpha Delta Pi put together a flower power outfit. The outfit was dark blue jeans with a denim cross body handbag that was slung over the shoulder, a brown top and dusty pink colored heels with a fringe design. To accessorize, their model used a maroon-colored ribbon to achieve a half-up half-down hairstyle.
Alpha Phi Omega was inspired by the 1950s and Sandy from the musical “Grease.”To fulfill this vision, their model wore a white shirt, an ankle-length red skirt and a red ribbon that kept their model’s hair in a ponytail.
Sigma Alpha Iota went next with and did a “groovy ’70s workplace” look. The outfit included brown pumps, a brown headband, a long-sleeved white blouse and a brown vest.
The last group to walk was Theta Chi. They admitted to going over budget and in the words of the presenter created a “Victorian era, working class British man” outfit. Their model wore a tan and brown suit with a white blouse and topped it off with a tan brown cap.
After all of the groups went, judges discussed amongst themselves and chose Sigma Alpha Iota’s groovy ’70s workplace look as the winner for the Community Aid Catwalk.
The representatives of Sigma Alpha Iota were Julia Loudenback, Rachel Newman and Kyleigh Kutz. Newman discussed her thoughts on the show, and what it meant to win.
“I’m excited, it was a very nice crowd. The support for everyone, I haven’t done this before so it was nice to see everyone show up and it’s great that a lot of people came to support the show and it’s crazy that we won,” Newman said.
Additionally, sophomore and audience member Jack Sullivan said: “It was really fun, it’s really surprising how much of an outfit you can make from Community Aid using twenty five dollars.”
