The CN Roundhouse Centre will be transformed into a time machine, of sorts, on Saturday (April 20).
The inaugral Belles and Whistles event will give Squamish residents the chance to take a trip through a century of fashion with historian Ivan Sayers.
Sayers has hosted similar events across Western Canada and has also taught on the subject at Simon Fraser University. Event organizer Rita Carey said it should be a memorable afternoon.
"Sayers has been a fashion historian all his life and his name is well known all around Vancouver and the West Coast," she said. "He's done a lot of work with museums and has done quite a few of these fashion shows before."
Belles and Whistles was put together as a fundraiser for the 100th birthday celebration of St. John the Divine Anglican Church in Squamish. Carey said the show should be a great way to look back at the past century.
"Basically he has been collecting vintage costumes for a number of years and we here at the church our celebrating our centennial so it seemed like a good fit," she said. "We will also be having a male model because we're doing it in conjunction with the railway park, which was obviously very important with the establishment of Squamish."
Five female and one male models will strut their stuff on a runway inside the CN Roundhouse Centre. Carey said that Sayers will help make the show entertaining for all involved.
"He will actually describe the clothes and how people wore them and why," she said. "It should be interesting for people who like history and or fashion. Sayers has a great sense of humour and he makes the shows very engaging and interesting. He doesn't use a script, he just talks - he really knows his stuff."
The event is one of several special days planned in advance of the church's official 100th birthday this summer. Earlier this month the Christ Church Cathedral choir performed at the church and a big weekend is planned on July 13 and 14 - the church's official birthday.
Carey said a golf tournament and dinner are planned on the Saturday, with a special sermon from Michael Ingham, the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster. She noted that when the church opened in 1913, the bishop from New Westminster at the time also made the trip to Squamish.
A silent auction is planned, with all proceeds going toward the church. The Hilltop House Society will also sell used purses at the event, with all funds raised going to benefit Hilltop House.
This Saturday's event begins at 2 p.m., with doors open at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are available at the door, the church, at On the Farm Country Market, Le Chateau and online at www.stjohnssquamish.ca.
