Glen Innes' tribute to Sydney's most stylish and famous dance hall was a return to a time when ladies and gentlemen knew what snappy dressing really meant.
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Over 193 punters fronted up to the stylish event, wearing everything from dinner suits and cocktail dresses to hippie gear befitting the peace and love attitude of the 60s.
The theme was based on the famous Sydney Trocadero, which was open from 1936 to 1971, and was regarded as the most glamorous destination in the city.
Historic house museum manager Eve Chappell, who helped organise the event, said the event's central event was a fashion parade featuring historic dresses from the 1920s to the 1960s and 1970s.
They had plenty to wear - the Land of the Beardies museum has a generous collection of historic dresses, and they borrowed more. There was one hitch though:
"We had to find people who would fit the dresses, that was the big thing!"
Eve Chappell couldn't pick an element she thought most successful at Meet me at the Trocadero, held at the Glen Innes town hall on Saturday night.
"It was the fashion parade, it was the food, it was the band; everything went together," she said.
Ms Chappell said the event will help raise money for next year's 50 year anniversary celebration, to be held on January 26.
The town's entire Australia day celebrations are to be held at the museum, which was opened on that day in 1970.
They will also open the Geannie Ross Fraser memorial medical wing in the old converted hospital. The new display will honour a foundation member and also offer modern patients used to 21st century medicine the technology and conditions of the past.
The history house also served a meal inspired by famous daughter of Glen Innes Margaret Fulton, who passed away earlier this year.
Glen Innes band Winter Soul Collective, which featured George Chorley (vocals and trumpet), Naomi Bain-Blair (vocals), Jodie Bain (vocals), Bekky Pascoe (vocals), Luke Oppenheimer (guitar), Ash Hall (trumpet), Dave Brown (trombone), Craig Campbell (drums), Kent Eastwood (piano), and James Haselwood (bass).