Repeat Boutique Dazzles at Lafayette High School

A "Repeat Boutique" was repeated for the second year at Lafayette High School in Wildwood from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.

Deborah Parker, a counselor at , worked with the school’s fashion club to coordinate the Repeat Boutique, which offered a wide variety of dress styles, improving from last year.

Last year, the event raised $1,150. This year, our goal is $1,000, Parker said. 

The boutique included nearly 200 donated dresses, including a BCBC Max Azria evening gown that retails for $280 with its tags still attached. The dress was priced at $75.

Prices at the boutique ranged from $5 to $75, and most of the dresses had been worn once. All of the proceeds from this event go to The Circle of Concern, which is West County's largest food bank. It is located in Valley Park, MO. The dresses not sold at the boutique will be donated to Epworth Children and Family Services, Lafayette’s theater department, and Goodwill. 

Alyssa Frankie, Taylor Stewart, Caitlin Stewart and Caitlin Clement, Lafayette students and boutique shoppers, all agreed the boutique has a lot of styles of dresses not normally seen in one store.

It's hard to find dresses that fit and are priced right, sophomore Karen Flaven said.

Angel Robinson, a sophomore and Mary Squala, a junior at Lafayette, both have been members of the fashion club for two years. They said that, although there were more dresses at the boutique last year, this year's variety of items was greater.

The Lafayette fashion club meets once a month, and is involved in many other activities in addition to the yearly boutique. Restyling T-shirts, making unique necklaces and scarves, and learning different hairstyles from local salons are among the club’s activities. The items that they create then are sold, and the proceeds go to different local charities. 

Another charitable event held within the boutique was a jewelry sale that was run by Donna Hagemeirer. Sheryl Williams, a local jewelry maker, made the jewelry offered. Williams takes unwanted jewelry and donated broken pieces and fixes them, along with making new pieces, and sells them, giving all the proceeds of the sale to Rockwood's Relay for Life, which raises funds to assist those with cancer and with cancer research. Jewelry prices start at $5 for earrings and $10 for necklaces and bracelets. All are sterling silver and handcrafted. Relay for Life will be held June 3 and 4.