Fashion 'disasters' hit the catwalk in charity night
SODO TREKKERS BENEFIT FROM PROCEEDS
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Wednesday October 14 2009
THE fashion-challenged as well as fashionistas who fancied slumming it for a night turned out in Skerries at the weekend for a unique fundraiser.
In aid of Skerries Sodo Group to support Self Help Africa projects in Ethiopia, locals were asked to cast off good taste and throw on a pair of dodgy dungarees or luminous leg-warmers in support of 'Bad Fashion Night'. The night aimed to put the 'shun' back into 'fashion' and participants in this unique fundraising night were asked to shine a torch into those dark, forgotten corners of their wardrobes to come up with their most horrific outfits.
Skerries Sodo Group put out the call: 'Dust off those velvet slacks, put on the shirt that gave your girlfriend headaches and nausea, and let out those leg warmers that combined eye-watering colours with the ability to cut off your circulation below the knee.
'In other words, wear as few or as many of your favourite fashion disasters.' The venue was Skerries Sailing Club and the money raised on the night will fund Sodo's next mission of mercy in Ethiopia in a couple of weeks time. Local man, Mark Wilson heads off to Ethiopia soon with the rest of the Skerries Sodo group. They are raising funds for essential projects in the Sodo region of Ethiopia. There was no admission charge into the Bad Fashion Night apart from the price of your shame as you turned up in whatever fashion disaster you chose to throw on but there were buckets aplenty to make donations to this worthy local charity and a great time was had by all. A number of Skerries people came together in Dec 2006 to set up the Skerries/Sodo group. The aim of the group is to focus on one particular region in one particular country to help ensure that the people of Skerries can be instrumental in bringing about 'real and lasting change in a community with odds of poverty, climate and global politics stacked against them'.
The area chosen is the Sodo region of Ethiopia where Self Help Africa are implementing a major project in partnership with the local community.
- John MANNING
