Tea for 200th, with style
Glamour, fashion at church event
For a moment, the pastor's son stepped out of character.
After the Rev. Victor Price invited congregation members to ``go back in history and experience things gone by," Shaun Price strode out among tables of onlookers in a Victorian-era suit -- complete with jewel-encrusted dollar-sign necklace.
A ``black two-piece suit with bling-bling" is how host Robert Benjamin described the pastor's son's finery to the crowd.
It was that kind of an afternoon at Second Church in Dorchester's ``High Tea & Fashion Show" last weekend , marking the 200th anniversary of the dedication of the church's sanctuary, in 1806 . Models strutted their stuff in threads from the 1800s, and Old World met old school.
A DJ spun piano ballads on a modern rig as a parade of models showed off day and evening wear of yesteryear. In the males' changing room, a side compartment of the structure off Codman Square where President John Adams and Daniel Webster once worshiped, the models kicked off their sneakers for dress shoes, leaving a pile of Adidases and Converses.
Those taking in the scene went wild as the female models turned and sashayed, as the males struck GQ-worthy poses, and as one of the men took a page from rapper Jay-Z's lyric book and brushed ``that dirt off your shoulder" while strolling through the audience.
Benjamin urged the audience to ``really look through the lens of history through our church, which has really been a cornerstone in our community."
GLENN YODER 