VIDEO » Male models take stage in seventh annual Bras for a Cause

Hundreds of people showed up to support the seventh annual Bras for a Cause June 1 at Ivy in Dewey Beach.

The event started with 15 male models working the room in elaborately created manzieres and costumes, strutting their stuff and flirting with the crowd for tips.

Each model then took the stage, prancing, shaking and gyrating down the catwalk, while auctioneer Tom Protack, Beebe Medical Foundation director of development, encouraged the energetic crowd to bid.

All the tips and at least 50 percent of the auction money goes the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition. The remainder of the donations stay in Sussex County and help pay for continuing education for chapter members.

Beth Krallis, Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition representative, said the auction and tips brought in $15,879. In November, she said, the council will present a check to the coalition with a donation from the proceeds.

"The seventh annual Bras for the Cause was a wonderful event," she said. "The models, the guests and the event sponsors had a wonderful evening in support of breast cancer and the Sussex County Women’s Council of Realtors."

At a bid of $2,000, AJ Tazelaat's, in his Mermaid Under the Sea bra, won Best Bra award (highest auction bid). He also received the most tips and was named Best Model. He was sponsored by the Rusty Rudder.

The event is presented by the Sussex County Chapter of the Women's Council of Realtors and sponsored by AmeriSpec Inspection Services, Fairway Mortgage, the Law Office of Bonnie Benson, the State Farm Insurance office of Jeanine O'Donnell and Letters from Camp Rehoboth.