When the Jimmy Choo doors in Highland Park Village opened for the Cattle Baron’s Ball’s shopathon party, it was just 2015 CBB Co-Chair Tia Wynne, CBB member JB Hayes, the Jimmy Choo staff and serving team on Tuesday, September 8. Within 15 minutes the salon was so jammed that the stilettos on the shelves were feeling down right claustrophobic. Before too soon the crowd was spilling onto the sidewalk.
But before crowds including 2010 CBB Chair Kristi Sherrill Hoyl, 2016 Co-Chair Cara French, Carolina Herrera’s main lady Melinda Rathke, Lisa Haddow Shirley, Catherine Jaynes, Christi Houser and HP Village’s Rachel Michell grew, Tia and JB took full advantage of the quiet and checked the displays for new foot dress wear. Both gals fessed up they normally wore flats at home and kicking about. But for those dressy and business type gatherings, it was hit the heels.
Tia reported that underwriting for the October 3rd American Cancer Society fundraiser and the headcount looked like it was once again hit the 3,000 mark at Gilley’s. Typical Tia style, she admitted she and Co-Chair Mary Martha Pickens had benefited from last year’s Co-Chairs Cindy Stager and Jill Tananbaum tackling the move of the mega-event from an outdoor venue to Gilley’s.
As for JB, she was all packed for a quick getaway, but not before she had a handful of raffle tickets to sell.
Isabell Novakov was doing double duty. Yup, she was Jimmy Choo’s for CBB, but she had to head across the street for a cocktail reception hosted by Lee Ann and Alan White and PlainsCapital Bank at the Dallas Country Club. Annette Simmons, Michal Powell, Rusty and Bill Duvall, James Huffines, Anne and Larry Nixon, Monica and Jay Rosser, Kelli and Gerald Ford, Ray Washburne, Debbie and Jim Francis, Pat and Emmitt Smith and a couple of hundred other swells were checking out an exhibit of western art.
How western was it? In the crowd were a number of gents topped off by Stetsons and a couple of handlebar mustaches. They were part of the Oklahoma-based Cowboys Artists of America, eight of whose members were in attendance, including Martin Grelle and Bruce R. Greene.
Legendary western poet/musician Red Steagall and his wife Gail were chatting with cowgirl banker Elaine Agather. Other guests included SMU’s R. Gerald Turner and Sarah and Ross Perot Jr.
The gathering was to preview the paintings and sculptures that would be on the block at the CAA’s 50th Annual Sale and Exhibition and Traditional Cowboy Arts Association 17th Annual Exhibition and Sale — Cowboy Crossings — on Thursday, October 8 thru – Saturday, October 10 in Oklahoma City, benefiting the National Cowboy Museum. Alan had the works brought to Dallas for one day from the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. Then he had them packed up and shipped on to Oklahoma City.
As a parting gift, each guest received a copy of a handsome book by B. Byron Price—he went to high school in Lubbock with Alan, it turns out—that was titled, “The Sons of Charles Russell.” Trivia: Local Trevor Rees-Jones is one of the country’s leading collectors of Charles Russell art. And, yes, Trevor was also among those in attendance.