Saturday, April 18

The OHCHS Shu Box Design’s Fashion Show Returns for it’s Twelfth Year by Rebekah Fleck

Everything from Zebra prints to musical notes to satin. That is what you will see at the 12th annual Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School (OHCHS) Shu Box Design’s Fashion show, put on by the Fashion design classes at OHCHS. All fashion design students are required to participate in this event, creating pieces of clothing which will be modeled by other OHCHS students at the fashion show.
When first started by Paul Soroy, the fashion design program, previously known as CAD fashion, was a way for girls to get into drafting because there is software that you use to draft clothing. His idea was to get the girls to draft clothing in hopes of getting them into drafting so that they’d maybe want to pursue a career in things such as building houses or engineering.
The fashion show is very inclusive of using student’s talents. Along with the fashion design students presenting their work there are other OHCHS students running the lighting and sound and even drama club members helping with things such as stage managing. The fashion design program has been in talks of selling some of their articles of clothing they have made to recoup money spent on material costs, but nothing on that topic has been set in stone yet.
When students in the period 4 Fashion Design class were asked how they benefit from this program some of the responses were things such as they learned life skills that you can use after high school and in the real world and a few of them said that their sense of style changed after being a part of the Fashion Design program.
Lori Millett, a teacher of the CAD fashion program said, ““I should not be amazed, but I am just so pleased that there are kids that come in who have absolutely no idea how to turn on a sewing machine or how any of this works and at the end of the year we’ve come up with all this great stuff and it’s really nice work.They really do an awesome job.”
Millet also said, “I think its important to have this life skill and to give students a chance to have this in high school because once you get out of school your chance kind of goes away.”
The Shu Box Design’s fashion show will be taking place in the Eastman Auditorium at OHCHS on Friday May 1st at 7pm. Admission is free.