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Young World
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JOHN L. PAUL
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He walked the ramp confidently to win the day.
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Joseph MarVin: Winner of the Flower Prince event
Marigold, rose, tube rose, jasmine, aster, and some evergreen leaves… stringing them together can very well make a striking garment. Joseph Marvin, a seven-year-old student of Navy Children School walked the ramp wearing this flowery garment, at the Flower Prince competition held in connection with the Cochin Flower Show.
A few smart answers to questions and lo, he won the event. “He walked away with the title for the fifth time,” says Jemma Joseph, his mother.
She stitched the garment and the traditional umbrella that Marvin carried,to give the look of ‘Perunthachan’. Many flowers found place on the umbrella as well.
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“I stitched the flowers together, despite having no formal training in this. I also did his make-up,” says a beaming Jemma. She takes classes in making handicrafts and candles, apart from cookery sessions.
Marvin made it to the top following the preliminary round and the elimination round where questions were asked and he had to walk down the aisle. Asked whether Perunthachan sings, he sang ‘Do, a deer a female deer…’.
He has been learning folk dance, and who knows he might one day give a flowery tinge to the attire worn by folk dancers. His father Malcolm Joseph is an engineer in the Merchant Navy.
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