Fashion Alert!

Fashionistas, wannabe fashionistas, ladies who lunch, girly girls and gay men, be on alert this Sunday for a huge, huge, HUGE fashion photo package featuring ballerinas in party outfits. Shot at local ballet doyenne Martha Knight's studio in the Women's Club building on 18th street and featuring two of her own Bakersfield Ballet Theatre ballerinas (the angelic Wyndi Balden and the beguiling Juliet Escalante) we've got a great holiday fashion story.

I mean, it's ballerinas doing pointe in party dresses. (For the dance illiterate, pointe is the advanced ballet stuff involving hard shoes that allow a ballerina to stand on her toes. It's brutal but beautiful and beauty is pain, folks.)

The photos were done by Felix Adamo so they look superbly superb and excellently excellent. And it was a team effort with Outrage Salon doing the hair, a make-up artist and clothes from Robinsons-May, Tangerine, Shabby Chic and Mervyn's.

I did a lot of shopping folks, searching and coordinating. Dealt with a wee bit of drama (meee-yow!) but it was worth it. It's going to be nice, so check it out. Get some clothing tips or ... just gaze at pretty pictures of ballerinas. You know? Whatever is your pleasure.

As for what's hot this season: Little tip, the colors are pink and purple, the hair is wavy or curly and the glam is all pearls and bling-bling. Go all Veronica Lake, Hollywood glamour on that party outfit.