Stylish Houston Luncheon Sale Pulls in a Whopping $1 Million For the Salvation Army — and Even Has Lynn Wyatt Swooning
Rare True High-End Fashion Bargains Wow
BY Shelby Hodge // 04.18.22Carol Sharpe, Lilly Andress at the Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary Reflections on Style luncheon (Photo by Jenny Antill)
You don’t expect to find International Best Dressed Hall of Fame diva Lynn Wyatt enthused over shopping through racks of, shall we say, gently worn clothing. Neither would we expect Houston Chronicle Best Dressed Hall of Fame honoree Jana Arnoldy gleefully loading her arms with same. But this is the beauty of the Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary “Reflections on Style” fashion event.
The swank closets from River Oaks to Tanglewood to Memorial and West University provide the must-have designer items that each year draw a sellout throng to the River Oaks Country Club luncheon, fashion show and shopping extravaganza.
The 2022 event earned $1 million for the good works of the Salvation Army, supporting programs that the army’s Major Shelley Bell noted are dedicated to “doing the most good for those most in need.”
While La Wyatt had contributed a number of her fabulous fashions to the cause, she purchased a dazzling costume necklace and earrings set and gleefully shared the bargain with her table host Linda McReynolds, a co-founder of the women’s auxiliary and of the luncheon. To be fair, Wyatt doesn’t actually shop the Chic Boutique, but she does explore the bargains.
The multi-tiered fundraising effort included the luncheon, shopping at the Chic Boutique in the vast ROCC dining room and the Chic Boutique Showroom (this year in a storefront in West University) which drew a record 3,200 shoppers during its three-day sale.

Congratulations were in order for event chairs Laurel Bashaw and Dodi Willingham; Chic Boutique chairs Maggie Austin and Pam Sengelmann, Chic Boutique Showroom chairs were Sarah Burchfield and Frances Villagomez-Howard and Judy Chong, SAWA president. The luncheon honored Dorothy Nicholson for her longtime service to the Salvation Army.
PC Seen: Salvation Army Houston Area commander Major Zach Bell, army board chairman Tom Forney, Carol Sharpe, Lilly Andress, Vicki West, Jenny Elkins, Rose Cullen, Stick DeLaup, Jeanie Kilroy, Anne Duncan, Elise Joseph, Jane and Jim Wise, Leslie Devillier, Connie Wallace, Jan Rhodes, Mary Maxey, and Maura Montgomery.