The stage was set for a trip into fantasia. It was the junior fancy dress competition. The venue was bustling with contestants gearing up for the grand finale of the competition with parents present providing much needed encouragement and support to the budding competitors. The stage was set as parents did last minute adjustments to their child’s costume and the general hustle and bustle gradually died down.

The competition finally commenced with Class 1 who had a rather innovative theme called, ‘Toys & Games’ our tiny tots made their way round the audience in cute dresses wearing geometrical shapes and the simplistic design propagated quite a lot of intrigue and curiosity among the audience. Class 2 entered with costumes based on the theme, ‘Advertisements & Commercials’ which was evidently a pretty off-beat theme where the show of innovation was evident with the contestants awing the audiences every other second filling a soul in our everyday television commercials which would certainly give many radical and original ideas to our ad makers, be it dressing up like a carton of chocolates or doing a nifty get up of a popular toothpaste.

As the crowd enjoyed themselves thoroughly Class 3 made their way to the stage with the fun-filled theme, ‘Bride & Bridegroom’ here children walked up the stage dressed in adorable costume of a Bengali Babu or maybe in a dazzling get-up of a lively Punjabi bride or an equally charismatic costume of a Kerelian bridegroom and many other such laudable costumes. Just as we thought we had seen the best…Class 4 this time took the stage with style as their theme ‘Mythological Characters’ which obviously gave the expectant crowd a show to look forward to. They did live up to everyone’s expectations as they brought Vishnu’s flowing robes to life or imitated the endearing figure of the pot bellied Ganesh, and dressed into the tiger skin costume of Shiva bringing him to life, emulating the murderous look in his eyes. The elation of the crowd did not waver at all, as Class 5 made its way to the stage with the hip and happening contemporary theme, ‘Don Bosco Fashion Week’, where boys brought international celebrities to the threshold of our school, be it pop star Michael Jackson or the happening model and Miss India, Ekta Choudhury.

Much to the disappointment of the audience, the competition had to end some time or the other and this one also had to come to an end…but it ended with style. Those dazzling costumes garnered much appreciation from everybody and every participant was a winner in his own rights

ARHGYA CHAROBORTY
9 D

Fancy Dress Juniors - Winners

Class 1

Kaegan Paul - 1 B
Pratham Syal - 1 C
Udayan Gupta - 1 D

Class 2

Sourabh Sadhuani - 2 C
Shawn Louis - 2 C
Parmeet Singh - 2 B

Class 3

Elton Jose -  3 A
Shubham Balaji Biswas - 3 B
Aryan nagpal - 3 C

Class 4

Tanishq B Gomes 4 - A & Depanghsu Chakraborty - 4 D
V Vishnu - 4 C & Shrey Tripathi - 4 C
K Aravind -4 C

Class 5

Kritin Khanna - 5 D
Samarth Wadhwa - 5 B
Ankit Vashisht - 5 D