Shopping for your next Halloween costume in the produce aisle. Entries in a fashion show organized by the Weslaco Texas Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley.

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Lucille Parrish: red bell peppers and citrus leaves. An Entry in Weslaco’s annual “Birthday Party” fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Miss Parrish from the Beta Sigma Phi Club is wearing a costume made out of bell peppers and citrus leaves. 1948 image. American. Yoder of Weslaco, photographer. Collections of the Weslaco Museum. via the Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21142/?q=Weslaco
Howard Wiley: Eggplant. An Entry in Weslaco’s annual “Birthday Party” fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Howard is representing the Kiwanis of Weslaco. Costume of “Mammy Yoakum.” Made of eggplant and mums. Stockings made out of ebony leaves and poinsettias, shoes of corn, and pipe of corncob. Undated, mid 20th c. American. Yoder of Weslaco, photographer. Collections of the Weslaco Museum. via the Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21254/?q=Weslaco
Claricia Balli: An Entry in Weslaco’s annual “Birthday Party” fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Claricia Balli is wearing a suit made of shattered green fern. The lapels and her purse are made of mums and the hat and shoes are of the fern trimmed in mums. December 1952 image. American. Yoder of Weslaco, photographer. Collections of the Weslaco Museum. via the Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21369/?q=Weslaco
Nikki Lettunich: An Entry in Weslaco’s annual “Birthday Party” fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Miss Nikki Lettunich (7 years old, daughter of Mr. N.J Lettunich) Jack & Jill’s childrens shop, 1950. Party dress of orchid yellow short circular skirt: grapefruit membrane ruffling. Bodice and Bonnet: bachelor button petals. Shoes: glypsolphelia seed sprayed with lacquer. Nikki Lettunich became Ms. Texas. December 14, 1950 image. American. Photographer not given but probably shot by Yoder of Weslaco. Collections of the Weslaco Museum. via the Portal to Texas History. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21399/?q=Weslaco
Contestant 24: An Entry in Weslaco’s annual “Birthday Party” fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Women wearing a Red Cross Nurse costume and shield. Nurse uniform was made of inside citrus peel shield was of cornflowers in red and blue and white mums. Undated image, 1940s or 1950s perhaps. American. Edrington Studio, photographer. Collections of the Weslaco Library and via the Portal to Texas History. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21319/?q=Weslaco
An Entry in Weslaco’s annual “Birthday Party” fashion show. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce to highlight the fruit and vegetables grown in the Rio Grande Valley, area citizens created and modeled clothing made from local fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Elizabeth McKeehan is wearing a dress made out of citrus peel with feather like trimming. December 1937 image. Photographer not known. Collections of the Weslaco Library and via the Portal to Texas History. See the link to see it bigger or to download. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21384/?q=Elizabeth

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