Exposing their talent for the first time, the Denton Craft Mafia will host their first fashion show with 13 models and three bands.

Mandy Metts, Colleyville senior and founder of the Denton Craft Mafia, said the group has focused solely on the fashion show since its founding in February.

The purpose of the group is to bring together people who share a love for crafts together to learn from and teach each other their skills.

"I wanted to start up my own group that has a family atmosphere where we are not competing against one another," Metts said. "In this field, there is a lot of competition, especially when we start marketing our work, but everything works better this way when we are helping one another."

Among the people helping Metts put on the fashion show is Kate Althoff, Austin graduate student. Althoff is helping Metts publicize the show and she also designed a cardigan and two skirts that will appear in the show.

"This is the first time that anything I made has been in a fashion show," Althoff said. "It is exciting to have my work seen."

Most of the clothing that the models will wear range is priced from $5 to $75.

Metts said the idea behind the fashion show was to take clothing and alter to reconstruct it. Some of the clothing was taken from the Goodwill, Denton's thrift stores and from the designers' own closet.

"Quite a few of the pieces of clothing is pushed kind of out there," Metts said. "Some are a bit extreme, but I can see some of the girls in Denton wearing them."

Sarah Fischer, Orlando, Fla. junior, purchased clothing from the Goodwill and Denton Thrift stores. Fischer took a skirt and turned it into a jacket, and she turned a skirt into a shirt.

The four pieces of clothing she constructed, which also includes 2 dresses, took her 20 hours to complete.

"It took a couple of long Saturdays to get everything done," Fischer said.

Fischer is selling each of her designs except for the jacket because she likes it so much.

Jennie Cano, Pearland junior, is modeling for the show. She will wear other designers' clothes as well as the $35 corduroy shirt she made from a dress.

Cano added that she is not nervous about her debut as a runway model.

"I'd rather not think about it. "Being nervous will not help me; I will just go out there and do it."

The fashion show starts at 9:00 p.m. Monday at Hailey's, on 122 Mulberry St.