The games are

scheduled for mid-September at the Hall County Lanier Canoe and Kayak

Olympic where winners will qualify for the Olympics.

Judges for

the dress design competition included Jim Hammond, director of Gainesville

Theatre Alliance, Michelle Marcombe, Atlanta designer, Sloan Jones, director

of PR and Marketing at Gainesville College, Andrea Birch, Ph.D., dean

of Brenau's School of Art and Humanities and Elizabeth Waters of Elizabeth's

Clothing Company.

Janet Morley,

director of fashion design at Brenau, is happy that the committee asked

her students to compete in this way. "The competition gave our students

experience outside the classroom," she said.

Criteria for

the competition was that gowns should be formal and either tea length

or floor length, the design should be flattering to the majority of figure

types, elegant and somewhat classic, graphically impressive on television

and with a color palette of red, white and blue.

For further

information contact Janet Morley, 770.534.6252.