Pinup pageant finalist Susan Marais of Cleveland hopes a flurry of birds will get her a place at the Tiki Wahini pinup parade on August 3 as part of this GreazeFest Kustom Kulture Festival from August 2 to 4 at Cleveland showgrounds.
Ms Marais under stage name Suzy May was shortlsted as a finalist for the first time in 2018 and hopes to better her position for her second competition.
"I am wearing a dress covered in birds and I am working out what to do with my bird props. Last year, one of the girls made a cocktail on stage with dry ice, so I have to top that," she said.
An IT project manager, Ms Marais, 40, said she always had a love of the 1950s era and is a regular at antique stores.
"My passion is tea sets. I have five or six of them. I also have a wardrobe full of 1950s inspired fashion. I like it. It's simple. It's innocent and it was a happy time," she said.
Since last year's foray into the pinup pageant, Ms Marais said she had enjoyed being involved in an online community that is supportive and where age doesn't matter.
GreazeFest offers vintage cars, live bands and DJs, pinup pageants, lowrider cycles, kustom art shows and workshops, tiki carving, jive dancing, and vintage markets. In a GreazeFest first, the Artomic art show will see Australian and international artists create art pieces focusing on outer space including robots, future cars, aliens, UFOs, galaxies and planets.
Day tickets and all-events passes are now on sale, with people who purchase the latter in the running to win the Kustom Kulture Prize Pack. The festival runs from 7pm to midnight on August 2, 10am to 10pm on August 3 and 9am to 6pm on August 4.
