South Florida Frocktails

Welcome to South Florida Frocktails 2025

The Ultimate Soirée for Fashion and Sewing Aficionados in South Florida.

Date/Time: April 26, 2025

Location: Le’Grande Ball Miramar Florida

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The South Florida Frocktails 2025 Theme is:

Havana Nights!
What does that even mean?

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A Havana Nights themed party for sewists and fashion enthusiasts is be a vibrant, tropical, and vintage-inspired event celebrating the glamour of 1950s Cuba with a creative, fashion-forward twist.

🌿 Theme & Atmosphere:
Step into a sultry, vintage Havana night filled with the sounds of lively salsa music, the aroma of tropical blooms, and the shimmer of luxurious fabrics. This is a celebration of fashion, creativity, and Cuban flair, where every stitch tells a story, and every outfit is a masterpiece.

👗 Dress Code:
Guests are encouraged to showcase their sewing skills and fashion passion with custom-made, Havana-inspired looks. Think:

Bright colors, tropical patterns, and dramatic silhouettes

Flowing ruffled dresses in bold floral prints 🌺

High-waisted wide-leg pants with off-the-shoulder tops

Vintage Cuban guayabera shirts with hand-embroidered details

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Meet the South Florida Frocktails Team

Johanna Ali

Johanna Ali

Co-founder SOuth Florida frocktails

Johanna was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Massachusetts when she was 4 years old. Having grown up in the cold New England winters, she moved to South Florida after visiting her friend in 1998. She graduated from FAU and has been married for 14 years and has a 12-year-old son with her husband.

Johanna started looking for a creative outlet and calls herself a later bloomer in the crafting world. She started her crafting journey making bead bracelets and then moved on to making mugs and t-shirts with her Silhouette cutting machine. She purchased her very first sewing machine in January of 2014 after seeing a skirt Mimi G Style made and thought she could make that. This was when her love affair with sewing began. Not having gone to fashion school, all of her extra time was spent watching sewing videos on YouTube and reading every sewing blog she could find and taught herself to sew.

In 2016 she started her blog www.soveryjo.com as a way to document her sewing journey which then turned into a place where she could share sewing and DIY blog post.

Having heard of different Frocktails events held around the world, she wanted to bring a Frocktails event in South Florida. She asked Dayana to partner with her to host the inaugural South Florida Frocktails event.

Dayana Jeanty

Dayana Jeanty

Co-Founder SOuth Florida Frocktails

Dayana is a fashion designer local to South Florida. Originally from Haiti, she was introduced to sewing at a very young age by her mom who was herself a designer. Dayana was sewing intermittently until her teenage years and life went on. The love for fashion and sewing was still in her, and in 2016, she registered to fashion school at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and graduated with an associate degree in fashion design in 2018. Since then, she joined the sewing community on IG and embarked on a DIY journey where 85% of her wardrobe is handmade. You can find her on Instagram at @26bydayana where she shares all her colorful makes.

Dayana has been consistently applying herself to create a strong sewing community. In 2020 she partnered with another sewist @rellsew from MD and created @swapitsewit where they encourage sewists from everywhere to swap fabric and share their makes. In 2022, at another attempt to bring the sewing community together in South Florida she created @sewfloconnect the link between creative minds and hosted an amazing event.

Dayana is a wife and mother to two children. She enjoys her friend’s company, sharing good laughs, travel, and most of all good food. In her spare time, you can find Dayana talking to her plants (lol), reading, working out on occasions sweating it in a Zumba class.

Now, you will find her here, where Johanna partnered with her to place South Florida on the leaderboard of Frocktails!

Kizzy

Kayan Thompson-Geddes

2025 Mistress of ceremony

My name is Kayan “Kizzy” Thompson Geddes. I was born and raised in Jamaica until the age of 12 and then I migrated to the United States. My hobbies are reading, dancing, singing, sewing and making others laugh. My motto every day is “I was brought on earth to make others laugh even when I’m having a bad day”. I love to meet new people and have fun.

I work in the healthcare industry as a certified nursing assistant for the last 13 years and I love my job. In the future, I hope to pursue a career in nursing.