Summer Workshops and Fashion Show 2006

Once again Sticklepath Fashion Show wowed the audience on Finch Foundry Field on Saturday 26 th August, with it’s usual combination of humour, flair, creativity and originality. The Fashion Show, now in it’s seventh year, was preceded by a week long set of workshops where adults and children alike came along to find the inspiration, materials and professional help needed to produce such wonderful and inventive outfits.

Bev Hilton, of the Fireshow Committee, said “The aim of the week’s events is to give young and old alike a chance to make costumes, masks and puppets just like we use for the real Fireshow in November, only without all the stress involved in the actual Fireshow. “The entrants could choose for themselves exactly what they wished make and then had all the fun of parading their creations on a cat walk in front of an audience at the end of the week.”

Categories included old favourites, such as ‘Make a Garment from Waste’ and fun new ideas like ‘Depict a Famous Landmark’. "What a show!  Our kids really enjoyed the workshop and strutting their stuff on the catwalk. We were amazed at the amount of work and the quality of it, all produced in less than one week” was the response from one audience member.

The event MC was Tim Argles, with the hard job of judging the show undertaken this year by Sue Bizley, Suzanne Maxwell and Nick Groom. Indeed the judges took longer than ever to pick the eventual winners in each category due to there being such a high overall standard.

On behalf of the Fireshow Committee, Bev Hilton said “We would like to thank all the participants and judges as well as the workshop assistants, Steve Compton, the Devon Marquee Company, Finch Foundry (National Trust), STOCS, Sticklepath Village Hall, West Devon Borough Council for their generous grant and last but by no means least the anonymous donor from within the village, whose generosity saved the event from failing before it had even started. Without any of these people or organisations we simply would not have been able to put the workshops and show on.”

Some images from the 2006 show -