•Bmancaster Finning, Saturday, Navambar 1897
Decades Of Fashions
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Intrigue Frederick Farm Women
KAREN BUTLER
Maryland Correspondent
WOODSBORO, Md. It was
something old, something new,
something country, something
city as two women’s groups here
joined together to celebrate a cen
tury of fashions. Sponsored jointly
by the Frederick County Farm
Bureau Women and the Frederick
Business and Professional
Women’s Club, Inc., the Decades
of Fashions program served as this
year’s Farm-City activity for the
Farm Bureau Women, and drew a
crowd of almost 300 to the Fire
man’s Activities building in
Woodsboro.
“This is the first time we’ve had a
joint venture to promote Farm-
City week," noted Louise Ediger,
Farm-City committee member,
“We felt that through fashion we
could reach out to women,” she
explained of the women's deci
sion to join with the Business and
Professional women. The county
farm women have a history of
veiy successful outreach prog
rams for Farm-City week, and last
year were honored with an award
for their service at the state level.
Funds raised by the program bene
fit scholarship programs, com
munity projects, and the educa
tional promotion of agriculture.
The fasion review followed a
social hour and buffet dinner of
baked ham and roasted turkey.
John Fieseler, a member of Fre
derick County’s 250th anniver
sary committee, served as master
of ceremonies for the event, and
Diane Ogg, Frederick County
farm queen, offered the invoca
tion. First historical fashions were
modeled by the farm women.
Mary Jane Roop served as com
mentator. Although the fashions
would have charmed the audience
on their looks alone, Roop’s color
ful, thoroughly researched com
ments added another layer of
appreciation by placing each fash
ion in its historical context. Many
of the women modeled clothing
worn by their relatives long ago,
and others donned historically
accurate reproductions. In many
cases the audience was treated to a
narrative of a day in the life of a
farm woman with a name still
Julie Roop demonstrated what a fashionable young lady
living in the early 1900’s might wear.
Bill and Barbara Crum were attired as a hardworking
farm couple of days gone by. Barbara wore a traditional
long-sleeved, ankle length dress of blue gingham. The
apron is accented with blue daisies. A sun bonnet and an
egg basket completed her outfit. Her husband Bill was
dressed in bib overalls and a crisp chambray work shirt. He
wore a broadbrimmed straw hat and carried a red bandan
na and a two-pronged hay fork.
common in today’s farming
community.
Florence Shell of Walkersville,
a collector of period clothing, gra
ciously lent seven outfits from her
extensive collection to the Farm
Bureau women for the gala event
Mrs. Shell provided more than 20
outfits for the 75th anniversary
fashion show in 1996 put on by
the women's committee. Her
generosity has made it possible for
the community to enjoy a wide
array of antique fashions.
In all 15 old-time fashions were
displayed on the runway to the
delighted audience. They ranged
from wedding dresses to mourn
ing attire; from women’s swim-
wear to children's playciothes.
Each garment was significant in
its own merit The youngest model
was master Roy Patrick Amaral,
modeling a 1912 baptismal gown
that was owned and originally
worn by Katherine Morgan Stull.
The gown was lovingly made by
her grandmother, Carrie Eyler
Morgan from 100% cotton with an
intricately pleated top. Hemmed
in eyelet, the tiny creation has 10
rows of pleats on the bottom. Mas
ter Amaral was carried by his
proud grandmother who wore a
promenade dress of mauve cotton
print with weskit jacket.
Following the historical fashion
show, the Business and Profes
sional Women presented a parade
of clothing suitable for today's
professional women.
Scholarship
Applications
HACKETTSTOWN, N. J.
The Finnan E. Bear Chapter of the
Soil and Water Conservation Soc
iety has announced it is accepting
applications for the Edward Hall
Scholarship.
Natural resource majors in a
broad range of categories are elig
ible for the $5OO scholarship.
Applicants must be full-time stu
dents attending a New Jersey
accredited college or be New
Jersey residents attending an out
of-state school, who have com
pleted at least two semesters of
study by the January 1998 award
date.
Application deadline is Dec. IS,
1997. Applications are available
through the chapter’s website at
http://puto.njcc.com/-paolini .njs
wcs.htm or by calling Laura
McNichol at the Warren County
Soil Conservation District (908)
852-2579.
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