Post #37310 by martiki on Wed, Jun 4, 2003 3:08 PM

I'm not completely certain, but back in the day (and still at two places I know of in downtown SF) "fashion show" at lunch meant "lingerie show". Ladies (I'm guessing local models or even lingerie store employees) would walk around the bar wearing lingerie and selling raffle tickets to the businessmen who were enjoying liquid lunches. Winner got the lingerie they were modeling to bring home to his wife. Or girlfriend. Or mistress. Or J. Edgar. Just like the liquid lunch, it's (not suprisingly) fallen out of favor for businessmen. The restaurant that does it here does it at 3:00pm to time with downtown contruction workers ending their shift. It's still called a fashion show, and it's kind of fun. Once. Then you feel dirty.

-martin