If City Manager Brad Kilger, City Councilmember Alan Schwartzman and attorney Steve Gizzi had no professional modeling experience, the audience couldn’t tell at Wednesday’s fashion show to benefit the nonprofit Community Action Council’s senior meals program.

The three men, attired in fashions by the visiting Williamson and Company men’s clothiers of Napa, danced their way down the Clock Tower catwalk, pausing to play up to the lunchtime diners who put down their forks to applaud.

In fact, Kilger’s antics sent one of the event’s newest models, Community Development Director Christina Ratcliffe, into laughter midstride as she was wrapping up her turn on the runway.

Ratcliffe was joined by other city staff volunteers: Assistant City Manager Anne Cardwell, City Attorney Heather McLaughlin, Benicia Public Library Director Diane Smikahl, Finance Director Karin Schnaider and Principal Planner Amy Million, as well as Gina Eleccion, Susan Hurl, Debra Davis, Kim Imboden and Julie Peterson.

Mayor Elizabeth Patterson and Solano County District 2 Superintendent Linda Seifert also took multiple walks down the runway.

“I bought this!” Seifert whispered with a smile during one of her turns, referring to her outfit.

City Councilmember Christina Strawbridge, the event’s emcee and owner of downtown store Christina S Fashion Destination, clothed the women, and First Impression Salon and Spa tended to the models’ hair and makeup.

Strawbridge chose the event’s “Stayin’ Alive” 1970s theme, with its glitter and sparkle, because of new trends in the fashion industry that reflect clothing of that era. But she reminded the audience of the reason for the event — feeding older residents — that added a double meaning to the theme.

Also instrumental in pulling off the sixth annual fashion show was Michele Hughes, wife of Vice Mayor Mark Hughes and a member of the CAC board of directors.

“It’s fun,” she said. Looking at the tables filled with those who bought tickets to the lunch and show, she added, “We really rely on community support. This is a fun way to bring the community together.”

The local celebrities and public officials who model also show their support for the cause, she said. “This is our biggest fundraiser of the year.”

Without the fashion show, the CAC would have trouble subsidizing the meals it delivers to older residents who have difficulty leaving their homes, the organization’s executive director, Viola Robertson, said.

Each meal costs $6.45 to make, but with the money raised from the fashion shows the organization can deliver the meals for $3.50 each, she said.

“I think it’s great,” Robertson said. “It’s really nice. We have a lot of people here. That’s significant.”

Totals from the fundraiser weren’t immediately available, but were expected to be calculated by the end of the week.