Anything But Cloth (ABC)

Last night marked the start of the house-sponsored parties for the semester. For those who don't know, these parties are all-campus events which take place primarily on Friday and Saturday nights. They usually have some sort of theme and are put together entirely by the house teams of the dorm or dorms sponsoring the event. Basically, they're a lot of fun and feature non-stop DJ-ing and dancing until one or two in the morning.

Unfortunately, I missed out on last night's bash, Anything But Cloth (ABC), thanks to a cold and a rather large body of reading for three of my classes. That being said, I do have a close friend who is a member of one of the house teams sponsoring the event, so can give you a brief synopsis of the party.

ABC was sponsored by two campus dorms--Lathrop and Jewett--as well as Contrast, a student organization whose primary production is a fashion magazine put out at the end of each semester. The dance had a "Project Runway" sort of theme (the show is quite popular on-campus): it invited attendees to show up in an outfit made of anything except cloth. Basically, duck tape shirts and cardboard skirts were absolutely everywhere. Aside from dancing, ABC also offered entertainment in the form a of catwalk where individuals dressed in non-cloth attire could show off their outfits and a screening of the show "Project Runway." Although there were complaints on-campus prior to the evening about the difficulty of coming up with an outfit, the party was, according to my friend, quite the success: most of the attendees managed to come up with an outfit that was at least partially non-cloth, if not fully.