Fashion Show a success!

The ESL Reading class organized a fashion show as one of their lab assignments in November. Each student wrote a creative description of his or her partner's outfit and read it during the show. ESL Conversation Instructor Suzanne Van Dam was the judge, and visiting photographers Karen Johnson and Gustavo Bourdieu took photos of the occasion. Students received a grade for the description and for modeling the outfit. Here are some photos with excerpts from the students' descriptions ...

By Kumiko: I'd like to introduce Mickey (Toshi). He is wearing a brown jacket, a pink checked shirt, a watch which has a black leather watch band, black trousers and leather shoes. Thanks to this outfit Mickey will look more stylish. I think he will be able to get more love from his girlfriend tonight. (Photo by Karen Johnson)

By Mickey (Toshi): Her name is Kumiko. She is wearing this outfit to a friend's birthday party. The jacket is a zip-up jacket, and she is wearing a red halterneck camisole under the jacket. The belt on her black pants is decorated with a pink flower in white leather. Her light brown boots are brown swede with 4-cm high heels. (Photo by Gustavo Bourdieu)

Here Toshi models his outfit as Kumiko describes it. (Video by Gustavo)

By Nick: Kana's fashions are economical. The gray overalls are corduroy and she bought them for $2. The colorful muffler is made of wool and acrylic. The colors -- bright and light pink, blue, black and ocher are attractive to men. (Photo by Karen Johnson)

By Kana: Nick's jacket is by Timberland. It was made in Bangladesh, and it's made of polyester and duck down. Its cost was two hundred and fifty dollars, so the jacket is so warm! (Photo by Karen Johnson)

Nick models his jacket as Kana describes it. (Video by Gustavo)

By Kazuki: Kazuki is playing the role of a British student in the daytime. He likes drawing something. He is wearing sunglasses, a checked jacket, a red sweater, a striped shirt, a black tie, black pants and white sneakers. (Photo by Karen Johnson)

By Kazuki: Fumiya is dressed for a London night club. He is wearing a green wig, black sunglasses, big head phones, a polka dot hooded jacket, an oversize white shirt, colorful spandex pants and white sneakers. He can dance very well! (Photo by Gustavo Bourdieu)

Kazuki describes Fumiya's outfit while Fumiya hams it up! (Video by Gustavo)

ESL Instructor Suzanne Van Dam, assisted by visiting Japanese students, announced the winners of the fashion show as follows: Toshi and Kumiko for the “funniest dialogue,” Nick and Kana for "best acting" and Kazuki and Fumiya for the "most creative outfits."

And here are the winners! (Photo by Karen Johnson)

By the way, Kazuki is becoming famous as a fashion model. See his photo taken at the Mall of America in Minneapolis during Thanksgiving break: http://vita.mn/story.php?id=1594315

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