The weather and location could not have been simply more perfect for the 2024 Crystal Charity Ball Ten Best Dressed Fashion Show invite-only cocktail party on Thursday, September 11 (aka the night before the big fashion event at the downtown Neiman Marcus store). Despite the rush-home traffic along Lakeside in front of Gretchen and George Seay’s to-die-for mansion, the valets scrambled to make the 220-plus guests arrive without a hitch.
With portraits on the piano of the Ten Best Dressed (Monica Eastin, Tracey Kozmetsky, Tracy Lange, Anne McPherson, Wendy Messmann, Kim Quinn, Sunie Solomon and Katherine Wyker) sans Meredith Land and Lisa Rocchio and 2024 Hall of Fame Honoree Lisa Cooley, Fashion Show featured designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia arrived just before the crowds and strolled the grounds.
Luckily for the multitude of guests like I Love New York cookie sponsor Christy Berry, Tiffany and Paul Divis, Laura Downing, Seay neighbor Ann Dyer with Laura Koonsman, Joan Levy, Jennie and Stuart Reeves, Carol Seay, Jennifer and David Lancashire, Kristi and Bill Francis, Megan and Justin Steinbach, Heather and Todd Furniss, Melinda and Mark Knowles, Robbie Kruithoff, Peggy Meyer and Cynthia Beaird, the temptation of drinks and yummies weren’t offered in the entry hall after being greeted by 2024 CCB Chair Cheryl Joyner and the effervescent underwriting hostess Elaine Agather. No, those offerings were available on the grounds beyond the mansion and laid out in the dining room.
Little did they know about the day’s hijacked truck glitch and what was still to come the next day.
For the days’ oops, foreboding of the next day and how the program carried on, check out the fashionable types and Dallas County children’s supporters at MySweetCharity Photo Gallery.