Rowlesburg on the River!

• Saturday 2:00 pm. One of the highlights of the weekend is the wonderful WWII Era Fashion Show.  at the white tent on the fieldThe show is open to men and women who wear authentic period outfits.

  Also included: ‘40s’ period music featuring the Andrews Sisters (see more below).
  

  For more information contact Shawna Sines at

Fashion Show every year presents a lot of different outfits, only of few of which are shown here. Fashions on display have included a 1940s gold colored haltered swimsuit. The model was carrying a floral umbrella and had a yellow flower in her hair and the 1940s traditional Red Lipstick. The Soldiers just loved that outfit!

Another model wore a black heavy calf length swing skirt with a red cardigan sweater and black saddle shoes. This
was typical for going to school or going to a dance. A third model wore the authentic outfit of a Navy Nurse with the white starched uniform and white shoes, and wearing the traditional nurses hat and blue wool Navy Nurses Cape.

Rosie the Riveter wore jean overalls with a button
up shirt and rolled sleeves, her belt to      help show off her feminine features with gloves inside, her work shoes and hair put up in a red scarf tied at the front.

Just because "Rosie" had to work in factories didn’t mean that she didn’t want to be feminine and show her curves and not wear her makeup and red lipstick.

Women were still expected to be feminine and ladylike no matter what role they played during WWII.

The Andrews Sisters

During a time when teenagers were doing the jitterbug and Uncle Sam was asking young men to enlist, The Andrews Sisters were America's most popular female singing group.

LaVerne Sophie Andrews, Maxene Angelyn Andrews and
Patricia Marie Andrews.

The Andrews Sisters:

• Earned nine gold records
• Recorded over 700 songs
• First all-female group to have a record go platinum
• Sold over 90 million records
• One of the first vocal groups inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame
• Over 100 songs on top 30 Billboard charts
• ·46 songs reach the top 10 on the Billboard charts

 Some of their hits include: “Beer Barrel Polka” (Roll out the Barrel), “Bei Mir Bist Du Schon” (means that you’re grand), “Don’t Fence Me In” and “Winter Wonderland.”

The Vinateiri Sisters

These real-life sisters - Ann, Carol, and Laura - are a trio who impersonate the Andrews Sisters. These sisters have been singing with each other for as long as they can remember, but have started performing together professionally in the last year. Growing up, the music of the 1940s and war era was played in their home and quickly became a favorite genre.

Ann, Carol, and Laura took on the Andrews Sisters identity as their own by performing in a USO show at a WWII event last summer at Eckley Miners Village in Pennsylvania. Since then, they have expanded their performance venues to reach people in the surrounding regions of their town, Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

One of the Diamond Gals wore a Rockford Peach Baseball uniform. The peach colored uniform with the signature Rockford hat and belt with red knee-high socks and
wooden bat. The women who played in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League were required to attend Charm School and were required to have a strict beauty routine, just because they played baseball and got dirty didn’t mean that they weren't supposed to look nice doing it.

The wonderful men in the fashion show have been troopers. The show has a baseball player in a red and white uniform and hat. We have had a visit from President Roosevelt in a white suit and hat waving to his wonderful fans and fellow Americans. Another visitor was a Russian soldier in his wool uniform and hat.





Carol Vinatieri, the middle sister, is currently finishing her second year of college at The King's College in Manhattan and is pursuing a major in Political Science. Laura Vinatieri, the youngest of the sisters, just graduated from high school and plans to attend Moravian College in Bethlehem where she will major in Voice Performance.

 The VinatieriSisters are joined by Ann's husband, Michael, who aids his wife and sisters-in-law with the sound system and adds his wit and charm to make the program complete!

 Carol, and Laura enjoy performing for the generation that enjoyed this music first.  They share their music in appreciation for the people who devoted their service to this country during that time of war, both overseas and on the homefront. The "V" Sisters also perform so as to inspire the current generation to look back on history in gratitude and enjoy this wonderful genre of music.

Ann Vinatieri Bauder, the oldest of the three sisters, graduated from Bloomsburg University with a major in History. With this knowledge, she has been able to volunteer a considerable amount of her time to Eckley Miners Village and the Hazleton Historical Society Museum. She now works for Catholic Social Services, serving through the Parent Child Home Program in the Hazleton area.