FASHION EVENTS
CALENDAR

Compited by Layne Christensen

FASHION FILE is a weekly Sanday colin,
ff sour business or charuy is planning  fash-
jon show, send in vaur infornution as carly
as posible to the North Shore News, 1229
Lonsdale Ave. North Vanesarer, BO. NIM
Ud. Priority is wiven to fimndraising fasion
events and fashion shows taking place on the
Nerth Shove.

Sunday, Feb. 20: Designer Kim
fronmonger coal ‘Toronto's
Valencienne boutique holds a
bridal trunk ‘show: in’ the
International Suite of the Bayshore
Westin Hotel, 1601 W, Georgia St.
Vancouver. By appointment only.
Phone Louise at 327-3633.

Monday, Feb. 21; The Caulfeild

arents’ Group and Gila’s Fashion
Co. present a show of spring fash-
ions from Leigh Morgan, featur-
ing ladies’ sportswear and Wow,
the Vancouver-based company's
new children’s line. 7:30 p.m. at
Caulfeild Elementary, 5685 Keith.
West Van. Admission is by dona-

» tien. Info: 926-4879,

Wednesday, Feb. 23: The Bay and
Clarins present New Beginnings, a
_ two-hour seminar on skincare ead
cosmetic surgery at 5 p.m. and
again at 7:30 p.m. at The Bay's
downtown store. A fashion show by
Mr. Jax and Studio J will be fol-
lowed by a 30-minute lecture on
‘cosmetic surgery by Dr. Benjamin
Gelfant and a question and answer
. period. Tickets, $37.50 plus GST.
-available at the Clarins counter,
main floor, The Bay downtown. Net
proceeds from ticket sales donated
to the North Shore Crisis Services
’ Society. Info: 681-6211 focal 2417.

Feb. 25-27: Image make-over
retreat on Salt Spring Island. The
workshop will include discovering
--your colors, your fashion personali-
: ty, reflexology and other healing
treatments, Guest speaker is
_.. wardrobe expert Debbie Rootman.
Le Cost and info: 266-8871.

. Feb. 25-27: “Sew It Seams,”’ the
Lower Mainland’s most extensive
“sewing, needle arts and craft sup-
ply show, comes to Abbotsford.
More. than 150 booths. fashion

shows, and workshops for “do it.
yourselfers.” Fri. and Sat. 9 a.m,-7 -

-p.m., Sun. 10 a.n.-6 p.m. Tickets at
‘Ticketmaster or at the door. Info:
689-1889 or 854-340),

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NEWS photo Cindy Gooodman

CAPILANO COLLEGE textile arts student Fiona MacLeod,
right, fingers a coat she created in celebration of the North
Shore’s Heritage Week, Feb. 21-27, worn by clothing produc-
tion student Erica Bluhm, who.assembled the garment. The
coat, silkscreened and embroidered with images of North
Shore heritage homes, will be on dispiay unti! March 16 in
the central lobby of North Vancouver City Hall.

Sunday, March 6: Couture
Fashions hosts Fashion Frenzy
Fundraiser. a sale of factory-direct
women’s casual and business
clothes priced from $19.95 to
$149.95, at #29-3871 North Fraser
Way. Burnaby, 2-5 p.m. Tickets.
$5, can be purchased by phoning
Chery! at 984-9321. Proceeds
donated to the North Shore
Association for the Mentally
Handicapped.

ASK WAYNE

Graduated 1968 fram the International
Fabricare Institute in Silverspring. Maryland:

e How did the dry clean-
ing business start?

A: . ; .
o~ There are many stories about the ori-
gin of dry cleaning. Presumably drycleaning was
discovered when a pelroleum-type fluid acci-
dentally spilled on a greasy fabric: it quickly
evaporated and miraculously removed the
stains. The firm of Jolly Belin, opening in Paris
in the 1840s, is credited as the first dry clean-
ing firm. In those early days “garment scourers
and dyers” found several fluids that could be
used as dry cleaning solvents, including cam-
phene. benzene, kerosene. and gasoline,

These solvents are all dangerously flammable.
so dry cleaning was a hazardous business until
the introduction of Stoddard solvent in 1926,
the first petroleum solvent produced specifically
for dry cleaning. This solvent does not ignite
readily and has the added advantage of being
free of odor and impurities.

In the 1930s perchloroethylene, a nonflamma-
ble fluid, was introduced and is used today in a
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