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CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE SHOP & BEYOND:

REALITY SHOW! If you missed our JC Friday show, "Welcome to the Funhouse," now you see this snippet on YouTube! Yes, darlings, our reality show is really starting to come together. No silly contrived contests, no fake rivalries, just our own stranger-than-fiction reality!

LUCHA LIBRE MASKS! Yes! We just had some Mexican wrestling masks flown in by special courier, and they're going fast! All you Rey Misterio impersonators had better get here ASAP.

LIVE MANNEQUIN SATURDAYS ARE BACK!! The nice weather is here, so we've brought back the live mannequins on Saturday afternoons to amaze and delight the ice-cream eating passersby CLICK HERE to see pix of some particularly wild mannequins from last season. More on our MySpace!

JC PRIDE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 23rd! Once again we'll be sending a super-fabulous Model Squad down to Exchange Place for this festive event! Every year, Jersey City Pride just gets bigger and better!

"FRACTURED FAIRY TALES:" FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th, 7pm - 9pm! Another JC Friday is coming so it's time for another freak show -- um, we mean FASHION SHOW!! Our models will depict all your favorite folklore and fantasy characters, such as Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat, the Aztec Mummy, etc. You just know this will make for some great YouTube footage...

DOG FASHION SHOW, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st Yes, World of Style and Liberty Humane Society will put on a vintage fashion show for humans and dogs to help raise awareness of the many lovable, adoptable pets living in LHS's shelter. The event will be part of LHS's "Bark in the Park" festival in Liberty State Park. Watch this space for more details!

PAST EVENTS:

JCLGO PATIO PARTY! It was another fab Summer Social with our fun-loving friends from the Jersey City Lesbian-Gay Outreach.The Buy The Clothes Off My Back charity auction supporting the Joan Moore Children's Art Fund was a success and all were wowed by a stunning performance by Zondra Foxx!! Catch the pix and video on our MySpace!

WELCOME TO THE FUNHOUSE! Another spectacular JC Fridays fashion show and art opening here at World of Style/Balance Salon! You can see bits of our splendid circus fashion show on YouTube...psychedelic clowns, exotic dancers, acrobats, the Bearded Lady and of course the Foot Slave! Oh, the fun we had.

VINTAGE PAJAMA PARTY! We sported the ultimate in "business casual" one Saturday, working in our jammies!

WORK-IN-YOUR-UNDIES DAY! A recent Saturday found us celebrating the engineering marvels of vintage lingerie by wearing these instruments of lifting and shaping as we worked. Our MySpace slideshow reveals all!

"SCARY PUPPETS:" A MUSICAL FASHION SHOW! We and our roommates at Balance Salon staged a way-out fashion show of living vintage puppets. Even the guests got into the act--almost everyone had a puppet face that night! We've got the photos to prove it on MySpace.

WORLD OF STYLE VINTAGE and BALANCE SALON present THE CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR! Who needs Radio City? This was the ultimate in holiday entertainment, a dazzling show that will forever redefine the word "Spectacular"! Visit our MySpace page to see the slideshow from this multi-act extravaganza featuring...Dirty Santa and his candy cane! Models galore! Ms. Scrooge versus Tiny Tina! The Horny Elf! The Stylettes as the Dancing Reindeer! Fireworks and snow!! PLUS we kicked off a new exhibit of collages by Joel Gertler!! There were hordes of merrymakers and plenty of holiday cheer (by this we mean booze, of course).

WFMU RECORD FAIR! We took our LIVE MANNEQUIN MODEL SQUAD on the road to NYC and wowed the glitterati and cognoscenti at the biggest music-buying fair in the Free World! People from all over the globe came to admire and gawk at our LIVE MANNEQUINS and of course to paw and consume our dazzling display of wares!

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES GALORE! Did you know that we made custom costumes??? Yes, the vampire cape on our model pictured at left is a World of Style original, sewn from a 1972 pattern. We also make Naughty Nurse hats and dresses, Catwoman ears, mouse ears, poodle skirts, petticoats, caftans, dashikis, turbans and more. Keep it in mind for next year, and get your AFFORDABLE custom order in early!

ARTISTS TOUR HALLOWEEN FASHION SHOW! We kicked off the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour with a fantabulous group exhibit on the walls and ceiling, live mannequins all afternoon and, as the pièce de resistance, a phantasmagorical fashion show of Halloween costume ideas. Scary clowns, vampires, naughty witches, naughty nurses, naughty Minnie Mouse, monsters...and of course Carla gave birth to a goat onstage. Too, too horribly graphic to show! You just had to be there!!

2nd ANNUAL FALL FASHION SHOW! Balance, World of Style and Makeup By Sidney presented a cavalcade of live models showing off glamorous hair and fashion ideas to fit your lifestyle in the cooler weather! Plus, a new art exhibit by Kayt will grace our salon/boutique/art gallery! AND there will be a film crew on hand to get footage for our reality show pilot.

JC PRIDE 2007 MODEL SQUAD! Yes, once again Balance and World of Style put together a Swimsuit Model Squad with makeup by Sidney and sent them over to Jersey City Pride 2007 to support our fabulous GLBTI community! The ladies and gentleman in their festive vintage beachwear helped spread the message of "Live & Let Love." See our MySpace slideshow for pix!

GRAND RE-OPENING PARTY! We celebrated the ultra-grooviness of our new digs with our roommates at Balance Salon on July 7th. We had a boffo art opening, glitterati galore in attendance, and of course LIVE dancing models in the windows doing the Twist, the Watusi and the Mashed Potato all afternoon!

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