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1994 Fashion Show and Silent Auction
A Woman About Town
Saturday, March 19, 1994 at The Concorde, Kildeer
Luncheon at noon, $29 a seat, fashions by Bloomingdale's
March 19, 1994
Reserved seating
What the flyer tells us
The club took the show back to The Concorde on Rand Road in Kildeer, the same room that had hosted The Woman of Many Hats twelve months earlier. Bloomingdale's dressed the runway.
The artwork put a woman in a wide hat walking a gold Chicago skyline, a Bloomingdale's bag over her arm, with the Sears Tower behind her. Reservations closed on March 11, eight days before the show.
Where it sits in the run
The 1993 flyer billed that year as the sixth annual, which places this one as the seventh.
It is also the second spring date and the second year at The Concorde in a row, which is worth holding onto: in these years the fashion show was a March event, not the November one it became later.
Two printings
One version went out on cream stock with the skyline printed behind the line art. A second used the figure blown up as a pale watermark running the full height of the page, with the type reading over the top of it.
Both carry the same date, the same times and the same $29 donation.
In the paper
Pioneer Press gave the show a full photo page in its Images section on Thursday, April 7, 1994, under the headline "Junior Women About Town." The captions put 480 Barrington women in the room and name the co-chairs of the spring benefit: Carla Barnes-Tamari, Katy Egan and Jane Heidkamp.
Photographs from Pioneer Press, April 7, 1994, page 31, saved in the club's scrapbook.