The Denim Party
1984 to 2012

An annual dance party fundraiser
Also See Garden Party

The Denim Party was a party/fundraising effort held at the
country dance club Brazos River Bottom, starting in 1984.
The group Colt 45's had heavy involvement with this event.
It was invitation only, but my impression was that if you
were a regular customer it wasn't hard to end up with
one of the colorful inviations: cotton handkerchiefs.

They included names of the hosts, and after a few years,
times being what they were, the handkerchiefs also included
the names of "heavenly hosts," for those lost, mainly to AIDS.

Appropriately funds raised went to mainly AIDS charities,
like the AIDS Foundation, the AIDS Coalition, Stone Soup, etc.
The event was also scheduled on the same day as the
afternoon Garden Party, so that many partiers went to
both events.

By the way, the handkerchiefs varied in size, with a
couple 12" square ones to several large sizes,
about 16" square, so I had to do four scans of those
and piece them together.

1984

Framed Hanky

1985

1986

1987

Denim Party Host Shirt 1987
(all shirts and many of the handkerchiefs,
donated by Brian Keever)

1988

1989

1990

1991

Above Courtesy of Annise Parker

Note: the lower "Heavenly Hosts" section
was likely started as early as 1987,
but I have not seen images of those to verify...

Denim Party Host Shirt 1991

1992

Above Courtesy of DJ Jecker

1993

Denim Party Host Shirt 1993

Below, 14"x14"

1994

Denim Party Host Shirt 1994

1995

1996

above 13 1/2 x 13 1/2"

1997

1998

above, 19"x19"

 1999

2000

With the TWT gone in Aug 2000, there were not many places to run ads

2001
looks like it was navy blue...

  2002

2003

2004

2005

above, 21 "x21", hard to scan

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

Note the event moved to November

2012

2013
No party, but there was a closing party handerchief

Need
84, 85

87, 88, 89, 90

94

01, 02, 03, 04

06, 07, 08,09,10