The Tate Ashbury Charity Fashion show happened on Sunday November 7th and it was a fantastic and dare we say it… groovy night. Fun was had by all and wow what a catwalk that Julie and Shannon put on… Unforgettable.

Music that was played during the fashion show was brought to you by those fine DJ’s at WUAG 103.1 FM.

Then after all the outstanding models strutted their 60′s stuff the bands took to the stage, starting off with a great set from Brooklyn’s finest – Pearl And The Beard, followed by out local favorites Holy Ghost Tent Revival.

There will be lots of pics and video to be posted for those of you who couldn’t be there.

- If you took any photographs tonight send them to Kit via info@shopdesignarchives.com or post them on the Design Archives Vintage Facebook Fanpage.

In the meantime until we get all the images sorted out, here are some rehearsal photographs before the show got started:

Press Release:

“Tate-Ashbury”….sound a little bit familiar, but something’s just not quite right?????

How about Haight-Ashbury? Yea, there you go….What do Haight Ashbury and Tate St Greensboro have in common? That commonality is HIPPIE…. Yes, we are talking VietNam Hippies….they congregated in this San Francisco area, they came together at a street corner, where Haight met Ashbury, and they caused a sensation and created change, and a culture that lead to the Summer of Love, in 1967…Where did the Greensboro Hippie congregate? You guessed it….in College Hill, and the Tate St business district.

Today, the term Hippie is still used but it often refers to a style of dress. A style that grew out of the San Francisco movement, where young people wore old clothes, often found in trash bins and thrift stores, layered together in ways that defined their counter culture generation and the look was popularized by musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

This trend is currently called Bohemian Chic, and you have an opportunity to view the modern version as put together by the Tate St. Vintage Shop DESIGN ARCHIVES.

Sunday Night Nov 7th, Design Archives will host a fashion show they are calling “Tate-Ashbury”…..; at Artistika, (at 523 S Elm St. Downtown Greensboro). Doors open at 8PM.

The fashion show will feature local models walking the runway to sixties tunes, and background hippie trippy graphics.

There will be a special appearance by Donna Lawrence and her dog “Susie”….the poster dog for the abused animal fund at the Guilford County Animal shelter, the dog who has told her story and visited around the state, to push for the successful passing of legislation making animal abuse a felony in NC. All net proceeds will go to Susie’s Fund.

After the fashions two bands will play. Pearl and the Beard, from Brooklyn and a local favorite: Holy Ghost Tent Revival, will rev up the action with their energetic brand of “new-grass” in the raucous style often compared to the Avett Brothers, but bigger, more sounds and louder….can you stand it? Enjoy the evening, buy your tickets at the door for $10, or buy early and save!; $7 each , $5 for students. Tickets are available at Design Archives, 338 Tate St. call 272-1800 for information. Mail order and Will Call available.

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On the 15th of November 2008, Kelly Cox who is a fashion designer herself, took some unsold and unwanted clothing and made them into something new. Then on a Saturday evening the Design Archives store hosted her first fashion show – Nouveau upcycled Vintage…

Below is a series of video clips from the show that night.

Additionally Kelly was featured in the Greensboro News-Record.

A snippet from the article:

“…In Cox’s hands, an entire line of clothing has been revived. What was once relinquished by others – an old quilt, worn pillowcases, outdated men’s dress shirts – are now modern garments that appeal to women her age.

Skirts and dresses were fashioned from pillowcases and vintage buttons. She made a halter top from a man’s dress shirt, circa 1970 . She altered a leotard – who wears those now? -and added fabric from other dresses to create a short dress. Her favorite in the collection is a silky gray, pink and cream striped dress. She added a gathered peplum to the front of it for a layered or tiered skirt effect. Vintage red buttons were added for details.

“It’s very flattering on because it creates an hourglass figure,” the diminutive Cox says.

Take a stroll through Design Archives with her and you’ll start to see outdated clothing differently. Even a dress from the ’80s – one with shoulder pads and sleeves that poof out like lamp shades – can be restructured.

An oversize, cowl-neck purple sweater looks like something Jennifer Beals might have worn over a leotard in the movie “Flashdance.” But it’s a great color – a deep purple, like the children’s character Barney. Cox, who enrolled in UNCG initially as an art major, is attracted to garments with vivid colors.

If the sweater were taken in to better fit the female figure, it would be more updated. Remove the sleeves and shorten it, and it could be a vest.

“I really like clothing, and I really feel like there’s something interesting about vintage because (of) its history,” Cox says.

The older a garment, the more imperfect its condition. But that’s part of its appeal, Cox says. Worn fabric, tiny holes and sun stains don’t deter her. She can hide or cover the holes. Sometimes a discoloration can add an interesting pattern to a garment.

“I kind of feel like the people who are going to buy this stuff are going to have an appreciation for vintage stuff,” Cox says.

Design Archives is a giant treasure chest for someone like her. She became a store regular through friends. “We would go, and we would spend hours and hours literally trying on everything,” she says.

Cox’s mother taught her to sew and encouraged her interest in fashion. But it was Design Archives owner Kit Rodenbough who is responsible for her foray into upcycled vintagewear.
Rodenbough, a lifelong vintage-clothing collector, says Cox reminds her of herself at that age. In fact, Cox was just hired to design children’s wear for Bonaventure, a company Rodenbough worked for about 30 years ago.

» Full article

VIDEO:

Kit and the staff of Design Archives were on the WFMY NEWS 2 The Good Morning show on November 12th, 2007. Rosemary Plybon visited the store to look at the fashions from the 1950′s…

A local news station – CBS affiliate WFMY NEWS 2 – has an early morning show which in 2007 celebrated 50 years on the air.

Rosemary Plybon – a co-anchor on the Good Morning Show visited Kit Rodenbough, the owner of the Design Archives store, to look at fashions from the 1950′s. Below are the two segments aired on the program, first broadcast on Monday 12 November 2007.

Kit and Rosemary talk about clothing worn back then and the Design Archives staff modelled some clothing.

Part 1 »

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