In between the long delays for set changes, the shiny ones strolled and strolled and strolled about the venue - the better to be seen in their sequined baseball caps, sequined shoes, sequined T-shirts and other sequined accessories.
Such was the case with four cousins from Southwest Philadelphia. The young women dazzled the fashion watchers at the concert with their glamorous threads.
Lisa Young, 23, glittered in a black jacket with the names of world fashion capitals etched in colored sequins (she also wore a military-style sequined cap); Tara Pressley, 20, sported a denim jacket with a multicolored sequined eye on the back; Chantell Smith, 20, gleamed in a blouse covered with white sequins, and Karaina Barnes, 19, glowed in a curve-hugging cocktail dress covered with large sequins, with matching sandals.
Sporting flashy sequins is the fad of the moment for the young and the hip, who are wearing the shiny disks in casual wear, sportswear and semiformal wear - at clubs that cater to hip-hoppers, at neighborhood block parties, in city parks.
Dressed up or dressed down, sequins are it.
Even men are wearing them.
Concertgoer Jerome Mond, 19, of North Philadelphia, cut a brilliant picture in his blue-violet chiffon shirt studded with blue sequins.
"Sequins make you stand out," he said.
His neighborhood companions, April Monroe, 19, and Kenneth Hayward, 20, were equally brilliant, Monroe displaying a white blouse covered with multicolored sequins in an abstract design, and Hayward gleaming in an oversize jacket featuring purple, pink and black sequins stitched in a triangular design.
"This makes you look like a star," said Hayward, whose ensemble was made by a local designer.
"It's a new trend," declared Sherry Christian, 18, of West Philadelphia.
