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Inspiring calendar released
Local women featured in charity calendar By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
For Vickie Trickett, strong women who have overcome obstacles to thrive and inspire others deserve to be recognized. And what better way to do that than to mix her own retro-couture fashion shop with a calendar shoot for a charity that helps women who need a safe haven so they can go on to thrive and inspire? “It was one of those things. The first part was wanting to give back to the community,” said the owner of Lady Blackbird Boutique and Tattoos by Vickie. “I was talking to a few friends and came up with doing a calendar with models and a retro ’50s theme. And second, why not do it for a charity here in town?” As a woman who escaped an abusive situation when she was younger, Trickett said the Chatham-Kent Women’s Centre caught her attention. “I didn’t know too much about the women’s centre, but the more I looked into it, the more it seemed perfect,” she noted. Using clothes from her shop, the business women figured if they were going to be dealing with inspiring women, she wanted the theme to be
vintage and classy, not only dressing the models up, but doing hair, makeup and jewelry in the retro style as well. The perfect backdrop for the shoot was provided by The Retro Suites in downtown Chatham, a place that had the right vibe and classy retro chic decor. In picking the women for the 12-month calendar, Trickett said she took her time finding ladies who were inspiring to the community. “I tried to find women that were inspiring to Chatham-Kent and women who inspire me,” she said. “Some people don’t know who they are, but they inspired me.” Women in the calendar include police officer and organ donor advocate Lynette Hodder, and East Side Pride founder Marjorie Crew. Trickett said the bios with the pictures were too short to do the women justice but said with two of the women, she doesn’t know how they are still strong given everything they have gone through. The whole shoot, she said, showed the women that they can go a bit out of their comfort zone and really get into the retro persona they dressed up as in a classy way as op-
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Vickie Trickett, bottom, the brainchild of the Women Who Inspire calendar, a fundraising effort for the Chatham-Kent Women’s Centre, is shown here with many of the models who appeared in the upscale calendar.
posed to the pin-up style. “These are strong, determined and classy women and you don’t need to be sexy to be inspirational.
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