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THREE DESIGNERS
Fashionable variety

VARIETY IS SAID to be the
spice of life, so when three in-
novative designers got
together to show their array
of fashions recently at
Peppi’s restaurant in West
Vancouver, spiccy it was.

Sherri Stinson-Coulthard
of North Vancouver, Brenda
Hughes of West Vancouver
and Debra Frank of Van-
couver have three things in
common.

They cach have an cye for
fashion wich they can trans-
late info cxquisite creations,
they cach took to sewing on
their own with the invaluabic
assistance of their mothers,
and they cach graduated
from Helen Lafcau's School
of Fashion Design where they
met.

But there che similarities
end.

Marned at 18 with two
kids soon after, Sherri now
30, worked as an altcrationist
at a drycicancrs in Michigan.

By BARRETT FISHER

She didn’t have any papers,
so took what work she could,
and fortunately the ex-
perience came in handy.
Many years later, Sherri
recognized her flair for
fashion through sewing for
friends and decided to take a
fashion merchandizing
course through Blanche
McDonald and the Lafeaux
designing course.
Debra, now 32, worked as
a secretary, but felt her
““creative self was stifled’’,
and the job was‘‘a burnout It
was a big decision for me to
quit my job,’’ she says,
‘*because | would either
make it or break 1."’
Fortunately, she seems to
have all the potential for
making it, and 1s glad she
made the fashion move
Twenty thre year old
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fashion designing through
her mother’s sewing work-
shop, Karita, in West Van-
couver. ‘‘l was unemployed
and depressed, and needed a
job.’’ So helping her mom,
who naturally was a great in-
fluence, got her career going.

Also she took the Blanche
McDonald fashion merchan-
dising course and design
course, and worked for
Cydney Mar, designing and
manufacturing, making
patterns.

Brenda now works on her
designs and has an area in her
mother’s shop where she
displays them.

Debra and Sherr will soon
be opening a shop of thei
own just off Lonsdale at 29th
wn North Vancouver, which
they are calling Take Me to
Your Leader

“H's just a lute cottage
and we'll buy some industrial
sewing machines and go
gung-ho."’

Sherri waitresses at
Peppi’s, where she probably
had some pretty good con-
nections to get their fashion
show featured, and an im-
pressive show it was.

The variety of the three
designers’ show included lots
of wools and tweeds in coats,
jackets, pants and skirts by
Debra, silk dresses, leather
pants and sweaters by Sherri
and lots of evening wear and
dresses and coats by Brenda.

The ladies each have their
preferences, and Brenda says
she prefers working with red,
but adds, ‘‘I’m so broke, I'll
buy whatever material | can
afford.’’

Debra on the other hand
swears by black, and Shern
likes everything, but especial-
ly blues, purples and black.

Debra likes the slim long
look and her fashions reflect
this in thew straight, clean
lines and loose styles. One of

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