Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, September 12, 1993 TAG: 9309240365
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ Emily Collier is a sophomore at Salem High School.
\ Staci Gilley of Salem is a senior at Bluefield College.
\ Anna Goodwin is a student at Virginia Tech.
\ Kim Hunter is a sophomore at East Tennessee State University.
\ Amber Mills is a student at Virginia Western Community College.
\ Trina Mitchell works for Roanoke College.
\ Nicole Quarles is a freshman at Hollins College.
\ Merrily Rees is studying communications at Hollins College.
Oh, the exotic locations! Those great clothes! Pictures of you! you! you! for the whole world to envy!
Think you want to be a model? What little girl hasn't balanced a volume of the Encylopaedia Britannica on her head and practiced walking with style and grace with hopes of one day winding up on the cover of a magazine somewhere.
Models for the Roanoke Times & World-News fall fashion section might not have horror tales to tell about teetering on a cliff while sucking in a stomach during a grueling fashion shoot in Tahiti. But ...
``I'm not putting that jacket on until I absolutely have to,'' declared Anna Goodwin the day we shot this picture (top, right).
It may be fall fashion, but it was pushing 100 degrees that day. (Just try getting models to wear pantyhose.) Anna had to walk more than three blocks to meet the photographer at the downtown location.
But there's no better sport than Ruth Claytor (bottom, right), who sweated, with a smile, through a summer's fall fashion shoot wearing that argyle sweater.
In the spring '93 fashion section Anna and Ruth teetered on a cliff of their own.
For a cover shot the two had to grin and bear it in tiny Betsey Johnson mini-dresses and platform shoes up on Mill Mountain. Behind them, the entire Roanoke Valley. In their faces, bitter February wind.
The secret behind the big smiles in the least appropriate clothing for the temperatures?
Ask Ruth. She'll tell you.
But soon her advice won't be free.
Ruth Claytor hopes to open a school for aspiring models sometime in the near future.
Keywords:
FALL FASHION
by CNB