Fashion Board hosts Bra Night Fashion Show

People gathered in the Matador Room of the Student Union Building at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday to watch the Bra Night Fashion Show hosted by Fashion Board.

Tori Rymer, a junior nursing major from Fort Worth and president of Fashion Board, said the group has been planning the show since June.

“We talked to different organizations trying to get some feedback and trying to get the word out,” she said.

Approximately 80 people attended the event, and Rymer said this year was the first time Fashion Board has hosted a Bra Night.

The admission cost was $5, and the proceeds were donated to the Lubbock office of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

“We did it as a breast cancer awareness show,” Rymer said. “We’re hoping in the future with more participation that we will be able to raise a good amount of funds and hopefully have it before the Susan G. Komen walk so all the funds we raise will go with our team.”

This year the Komen Walk for the Cure raised $236,787, according to the Susan G. Komen website, which was 79 percent of its overall goal for Lubbock.

Jana Hunter, executive director for Susan G. Komen Lubbock, spoke to the crowd about breast cancer before the show started.

“We fund research, we also fund local grants that help people access treatment, get screenings and have access to equipment,” she said. “We take a comprehensive approach. In 1970, the five year relative survival rate was 75 percent. Right now it’s 99 percent.”

After Hunter talked, Dancers With Soul performed for the crowd.

The fashion show began as the models walked out one at a time wearing pants and bras designed by students, and they each posed for the photographers present.

“First our goal was to get a bra from each organization,” she said. “We talked to Hi Tech and Heads Up Display to get those bras designed.”

The bras ranged in design style, and some were simple with the main design aspects on the back, while others were intricate with feathers and jewels.

The crowd applauded each model, and Rymer said all the models had fun walking in the show.

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“Casting the models was probably the easiest part of planning the show,” she said. “They were all excited.”

After the models walked individually, they all came back onto the stage to pose together in a line.

Five male models joined them on stage wearing capes and boxers, and they danced for the crowd as a preview to the Boxer Night that will be hosted by Fashion Board in April.

“We’re hoping to coordinate with someone to talk about prostate cancer,” she said.

After the show, audience members had the opportunity to take pictures with the models outside of the Matador Room.

Bra Night will become an annual event hosted during the fall semester, and Rymer said she hopes the event grows to include more people.

“This is just a different and unique way to get the word out about breast cancer,” she said. “My biggest thing was getting organization collaboration. I don’t think there’s a lot on Tech’s campus for organizations to get together and collaborate. This was a fun way to do that.”