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Shop till you drop at Designing Women

The Upscale Sidewalk Sale from Designing Women benefitted the organization.


  • By Amelia Hanks
  • | 12:45 p.m. February 2, 2019
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Designing Women Boutique hosted their Upscale Sidewalk Sale on Feb. 4. The sale, which benefits DWB’s arts and communities’ grants program and their signature GroundWorks initiative that funds scholarships, mentoring and career advancement opportunities.

Wares available for sale included shoes, clothes, antiques, jewelry and more. There were appraisers from Antiques Roadshow present at the sale as well. 

The Booker Middle School Dragonfly Cafe Poets were also in attendance, offering up poems written on typewriters in exchange for tips. 

Pat Orre and Tricia Taormino take a look at some clothes for sale.
Pat Orre and Tricia Taormino take a look at some clothes for sale.
Shoes from Designing Women are for sale at the boutique.
Shoes from Designing Women are for sale at the boutique.
Pamela Tudor smells an orchid from Selby Gardens.
Pamela Tudor smells an orchid from Selby Gardens.
Joan Viele and Jane Vet examine some of the jewelry.
Joan Viele and Jane Vet examine some of the jewelry.
There were more expensive jewelry, behind the glass cases, that caught Nan Kaftan and Eileen Cantarelta.
There were more expensive jewelry, behind the glass cases, that caught Nan Kaftan and Eileen Cantarelta.
Various antiques, like this piano, were for sale.
Various antiques, like this piano, were for sale.
Jeanne Graham and Jane Nutter-Johnson check out the wares.
Jeanne Graham and Jane Nutter-Johnson check out the wares.
Melissa Furman, Penny Hill and Susan Palmer
Melissa Furman, Penny Hill and Susan Palmer
Girls Inc.'s Amanda Poynter, Jennifer Arreaga and Pat Armstrong
Girls Inc.'s Amanda Poynter, Jennifer Arreaga and Pat Armstrong
There are tables of shoes, clothes and jewelry.
There are tables of shoes, clothes and jewelry.
Jewelry from Designing Women are popular for the people in attendance.
Jewelry from Designing Women are popular for the people in attendance.
Celeste Flores from Booker Middle's Visual and Performing Arts school, types on her type writer for the Dragonfly Cafe Poets.
Celeste Flores from Booker Middle's Visual and Performing Arts school, types on her type writer for the Dragonfly Cafe Poets.

 

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