Models and music featured at Night Out

LITCHFIELD >> Local business owners on the Green hosted the final Litchfield’s Night Out on Thursday with live models, music and special in-store events.

The Night Out events are designed to showcase merchants and local artists. Additionally, many of the stores keep their doors open late into the evening, allowing people who can’t come during the day to visit.

“It engages the local community,” said Jonathan Wilson, manager at R. Derwin Men’s Store and chairman of the Litchfield Merchants Association.

This year, the association and the Litchfield Area Business Association held an Art Night on July 2, Music Night on July 30 and Fashion Night on Aug. 27.

In five years of promoting the events, the group has learned that the art themed evenings are particularly popular, Wilson said. Next year, the evenings will likely focus on that theme but still incorporate music and fashion.

The Fashion Night Thursday also tied in to the Litchfield Historical Society’s “House of Worth: Dressing Litchfield.” That exhibit features original 1916 and 1918 watercolor fashion sketches sent from the Paris fashion house to seasonal resident Julia Chester Wells. The exhibit runs through Nov. 29 and includes special events. See more at litchfield historicalsociety.org.

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PHOTOS BY JOHN FITTS — THE REGISTER CITIZEN MEDIA. REGISTER CITIZEN.COM Above, the No Stress Band entertained in Cobble Court During the Litchfield Night Out event on Thursday. Online: To see more photos, go to

Jonathan Wilson, manager at R. Derwin Men’s Store and chairman of the Litchfield Merchant Association, and Howard Sacarob during the store’s American Made event, which corresponded with Litchfield Night Out on Thursday. Below, Scott Putnam and Dino...