Student Arts Alliance hosts thrift store fashion show

that,” Teeman said.

Fashion isn’t always about making new clothes.

For eight student designers, fashion is about old clothes. On Thursday, the Student Arts Alliance welcomed students and parents to view a fashion show featuring looks of clothes from local thrift stores.

Fashion isn’t exclusively for fashion majors, either. Sarah Teeman, a sophomore majoring in microbiology, designed four looks for the show.

“I think it’s cool to promote sustainability and creativity, no matter your major, no matter how you express

Designers were given a budget of $100 for their show. Teeman said the affordability of the thrift stores in Stillwater kept the budget from limiting her creativity.

Teeman recruited four of her friends to model her looks, as did most of the other designers. After one of Teeman’s models suffered a family emergency, Teeman walked as a model in her own show. Two of the show’s models were selected through a model call that the Students Arts Alliance hosted.

Teeman said her vision for the show is hard to put into words, but she drew inspiration from sequins and the color green. She allowed her models to keep the clothes they wore in the show and designed the looks with her friends’ personal styles in mind.

“I wanted them to feel confident in these clothes, and give them a new outfit,” Teeman said. “I kind of styled it to be formal themed, something to wear on a date or wherever.”

About 90 people attended the show, which overlapped with Bedlam wrestling. Kayla Loper, the associate director of campus life, said the Student Arts Alliance recognizes wrestling may not be for everyone.

“I think the Student Arts Alliance does a really good job of finding ways to provide alternative entertainment on campus and kind of create that community for students who like this type of thing,” Loper said. This was the Student Arts Alliance’s first thrift store fashion show. Students interested in designing for the show applied through an online form that asked a few basic questions about the student’s style and examples of their past work. The show was advertised solely through social media, and Student Arts Alliance recommends students who are interested in designing for next year’s show follow Student Arts Alliance on social media.

For students interested in thrifting for themselves, Teeman said Karman Korner Resale Shop is the best local thrift store.

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“It gives all these students a home,” Huff said. “They feel like they belong when they’re here. You can see them just relax and get into it. It’s very important to see the true nature and culture of these kids because they settle in here.”

Many of the foods appeared similar. Lots of chicken and different meats. But cultural differences appeared in the bite and the food’s preparation.

The Nepalese Student Organization sold about 750 momos, steamed dumplings filled with chicken and vegetables.

Niranjan Pokhrel, a horticulture master’s student from Nepal said the group started making the food at 6 p.m. Friday night. The job wasn’t finished until 3:30 a.m.

It’s no easy task.

“It takes a lot of effort to make that,” he said. “It’s also a skill thing. Not everyone can make it. We had some people’s friends and seniors were really good at making it.”

In Persian culture, Yaser Shamsi, Iran native and doctorate student in OSU’s English department, said men perform tasks of manual labor as moving large pots. Many women cook as do men. Men also perform tasks of manual labor such as moving large pots.

“We have some good cooks here who are men here,” he said. “Like my dad. Some of the boys also participated.”

It’s the process that makes everything unique.

“Even looking at the way people celebrate things and the way people cook (are different),” Shamsi said. “You can cook the same ingredient when you just buy it from a shop like Walmart. But when it goes home and it goes through the process that happens in the kitchen, it is the culture, the background and the people that makes the final dish that you see here.”

His wife made some of the Persian foods, such as Ash e Reshte. Another couple made falafel.

“Having a community of Iranian people just makes me feel as if it’s not that far away from family,” Shamsi said. “OSU is really international friendly. This is one of the events that I really appreciate.”

OSU boasted 1,519 international students in fall 2022, according to OSU international student statistics provided to The O’Colly. Mayank Talreja, a master’s student from India, represents OSU’s largest international community. The country’s 418 students make it OSU’s biggest international population.

The Indian Student Association also won the event’s best desert content with its kalakand, an Indian milk cake.

“That is what encourages us and gives me a motivation to do something for students,” Talreja said. “We help students transition their life from India to a new country here. It’s been great that a lot of friends are here from our country.”

ISO will also host its Culture Night on April 8 in the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts, another opportunity for OSU’s international students.