KINGSTON — It all started with a black patent leather rain jacket.

This fabulous coat Kingston resident Susan Rodgers found at Lucky Star Consignment Clothing in mid-March reminded her of the snazzy style of London in the 1970s. While she felt she didn’t look right in it, she was determined to find one of her friends who could pull it off.

After finally matching the jacket at the shop with the perfect person — Kingston resident Sally Heacock — Rodgers and Lucky Star owner Stacy Patrick were musing over the recent gloomy weather. Rodgers then became inspired.

“Stacy, we need a fashion show,” Rodgers told Patrick. “We need a spring fashion show.”

Patrick’s eyes lit up and “she ran off with it,” Rodgers said later. “That girl is like the Energizer Bunny.”

So, at 3 p.m. May 21 at the Indianola Club House, local models will be strutting the runway during the “Kitsap Style Fashion Show,” showing off fun fashions style by Patrick. Coastal Coffee will cater the event.

Besides letting women indulge themselves in a girly-afternoon filled with jewelry, accessories and lots of color, proceeds from the event will go to The DREAM Project, a program of the Kitsap Foster Care Association. The DREAM Project provides grants to children in foster care for up to $50 for various requests, including tuition for summer camp, swimming lessons, music lessons, sports team fees/equipment or new clothing. Also, May is National Foster Care Month, Patrick said.

“To help fill the coffers, to keep the program going, that seemed like a great idea to me” Rodgers added.

Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at Lucky Star, Pine Cone Gifts, Coastal Coffee and Indianola General Store.

Both women have experience in dealing with such events — Patrick, in high school during her fashion merchandising class; Rodgers, when she lived in Portland and helped organize the city’s annual opera guild spring fashion show — and both have run with the idea.

“Why can’t we do it with consignment clothing?” Rodgers asked. “That would be Kitsap-style, wouldn’t it? No one said we can’t put together style in Kitsap.”

Rodgers also admits tuning into the cable network shows “Project Runway” and “Style Me,” so she has had models, fashion and accessories on her mind.

While she’s not a fashion expert, Rodgers is a professional interior designer and knows a few things about color. Patrick, owning and managing Lucky Star, has a definite sense of style herself and knows how to put articles of clothing together for trendy look, Rodgers said.

During the show, Patrick will also show the audience how it can take a simple outfit and dress it up with a change of shoes, jewelry and accessories.

“(Patrick can) show how clothes in your own closet can have a different twist by thinking about more color in your life, (such as adding) accessories and how to use them,” Rodgers said.

It’s also a way to have some fun in the North End, Patrick said.

“There’s not enough reasons around here to dress up,” she said.