By Meredith Moss
FASHION SPECIALIST KIM Williams Dahlman will share tips for summer dressing at an Elder-Beerman coordinates wardrobing event at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Centerville store at Ohio 48 and Sheehan Road, and at 2 p.m. the same day at the Northwest store, 2917 Philadelphia Drive. Fashions by Koret, Sag Harbor and Alfred Dunner will be featured.
Dahlman, herself a petite, regularly helps train salespeople for major retailers in the Midwest and has appeared on the Home Shopping Network, Fox TV's Spotlight on Style and Your New Fashion Image on PBS.
Refreshments will be served at the Elder-Beerman events, and gift bags will be presented to attendees. No reservations are necessary, and the event is free.\
SHOW FEATURES CLOTHING
FROM 1750 TO 1900
The Hauck House Museum in Cincinnati will present a fashion show featuring couture spanning almost two centuries at 2 p.m. next Sunday.
Carol Lee Peters, a designer and seamstress of period clothing, will share tidbits on high fashion from 1750 to 1900. More than 24 models will showcase her hand-sewn collection of bonnets, stoles and mantles.
Peters' program includes a segment that demonstrates how women of the era dressed from the inside out, beginning with correct underpinnings and ending with reticules (purses) and parasols.
Peters is the owner of Millcreek Mercantile and Millinery. She designs and creates period clothing from the 18th and 19th century for re-enactment groups and clients worldwide.
The museum, part of the Heritage Village Museum, is at 812 Dayton St. in Cincinnati. Call (513) 561-8842 for more information or to make a reservation. Cost for the show is $5, which includes admission to the Hauck House.
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ST. JOHN KNITS FOUNDER
WILL BE IN CINCINNATI
If you're a St. John Knits devotee, you'll be interested in meeting designer and co-founder Marie Gray at a luncheon Thursday in Cincinnati.
The fund-raiser, sponsored by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Saks Fifth Avenue, is being held at the Omni Netherland Plaza.
An 11:30 a.m. reception will be followed by a preview of the St. John fall collection at noon. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., and Saks is hosting an in-store reception at 1:45 p.m.
Tickets are $50. For more information, call (513) 361-2100.
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SANDALS, PEDICURES
GAIN POPULARITY
Joyce Ketron, owner of the Nail Shoppes in Centerville and Harrison Twp., says she's noticed a big increase in requests for pedicures.
`I'm assuming it's because of the popularity of open-toed shoes,' Ketron says. `I feel sorry for people who can't wear sandals. It seems like that's all that's in the stores for spring and summer.'
Jeff Garfield at the Walking Place in Springfield's Upper Valley Mall imports some unusual lines of comfortable shoes from a number of countries.
`When your feel hurt, you hurt all over, and comfortable footwear can definitely improve one's disposition,' Garfield says.
He sells European dressy casual collections - flats, wedges and heels - from Arche, a French manufacturer, Ara (German), Stonefly (Italian) and Beautifeel (Israel).
The most expensive of the lines, Arche ($180 to $225) have soles made from hevea milk. The hevea is a tree grown in tropical Asia that produces a natural latex. Hats off to Garfield, who, along with Naot, an Israeli manufacturer, recently donated 100 pair of new, slightly blemished shoes and clogs to Project Woman, a Springfield shelter and center for abused women.
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DSW SHOE WAREHOUSE
OPENING AT MALL
And while we're on the subject, shoe addicts will want to know that DSW Shoe Warehouse will open at Dayton Mall on July 6 with more than 27,000 pairs of shoes in stock. (Lined up end to end, that's more than five miles of shoes.)
The shops offer designer and name-brand footwear at discounted prices. Shoes are first quality; no irregulars are sold.
DSW Shoe Warehouse was named `best shoe bargain' by Chicago Magazine and the best place to satisfy a shoe fetish in Phoenix by the Arizona Republic.
The chain operates 60 stores in 35 markets throughout the United States; you may have shopped DSW stores in Cincinnati at Interstate 71 and Fields-Ertle Road or in Columbus, where the company is based. DSW Shoe Warehouse is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Value City.
* If there is a fashion event you would like considered for this column, or if you have a fashion question or problem, send the information at least three weeks before the event to Meredith Moss, Dayton Daily News, 45 S. Ludlow St., Dayton, Ohio 45402. Include a telephone number.
[ILLUSTRATION] PHOTO: ABOVE: The Hauck House Museum in Cincinnati will present a fashion show featuring couture spanning almost two centuries next Sunday
LEFT: Alfred Dunner fashions will be among those showcased at the Centerville and Northwest Elder-Beerman stores on Tuesday.\ Kim Dahlman [EDITION] CITY [SOURCETAG] 0006040022