Amber Fletcher was born into corny canine royalty. Daughter of the late Corny Dog King, Neil “Skip” Fletcher Jr., and granddaughter of Neil Fletcher—the inventor of the corny canine by decree of the Texas state Senate—she is the one and solely Corny Dog Heiress.
Her grandfather Neil and great-uncle Carl debuted their fifteen-cent “meal on a stick” on the State Fair Midway in 1942. That was earlier than the truthful featured every other fried meals, the sacrosanct Big Tex, or the Big Tex Choice Awards, at which concessionaires have been competing for a top-ten spot in a gladiatorial fry-off since 2005. It is Amber Fletcher’s forebears the world has partly to thank for instituting the deep-fried frenzy that’s develop into synonymous with the State Fair of Texas.
A redheaded, yellow-clad spokeswoman, Amber began within the business at ten years old, the identical means all of the Fletcher relations who nonetheless return to work the truthful did: by “stickin’ dogs” for nevertheless lengthy their consideration spans lasted earlier than wandering off for rides or a slice of pizza. Today they nonetheless do all the things the old-fashioned means: “We could buy the meat already stuck. We could buy it already cooked,” Amber says. Instead, they do it identical to her grandfather as soon as did.
More than 25 years and hundreds of thousands of caught dogs later, she is the face of Fletcher’s Original Corny Dogs (when you don’t depend the mascot, Mr. Corny). She shares possession along with her brother, Aaron Fletcher, and cousin William “W. C.” Fletcher, who fill much less conspicuous roles in building the third-generation household business. Her mom, Glenda Gale “G. G.” Fletcher, Skip’s bride of 39 years, nonetheless reigns as matriarch.
Skip was the primary to drizzle the Fletcher’s corny canine model with a definite private type. Although mustard is the Fletchers’ official reply to the Great Mustard or Ketchup Debate (the Dallas Morning News reported in 2012 that Skip and his brother, Bill, served ketchup to “appease the Yankees”), Skip was identified for carrying pink and flashing corny canine bling, resembling a single gold corny canine earring and a bigger, bejeweled corny canine necklace, which G.G. and Amber nonetheless put on immediately.
Two years after Skip died, Amber took a media coaching class, at which she was suggested to repeatedly symbolize the model, like her dad did. She began by sporting his colour, pink, however when she first wore a yellow jumper, she remembers, “Everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s your color.’ ” She’s since embraced it with a closetful of mustard-yellow garb.
“My dad, for a man, he was quite fancy,” says Amber, carrying a golden yellow eyelet gown, a gold corny canine necklace, and her grandfather’s Texas-shaped gold-nugget wedding ceremony ring, to which her grandmother’s diamond was added after she died. The ring was bequeathed to Skip, who wore it every day, after which to Amber, who wears it when she’s lacking her dad. She credit him for her casual-corny-chic type immediately—and for being so fervent in passing on the household business.
Now as Amber, with the Fletcher household, prepares to feed 2.5 million truthful guests 60,000 kilos of hand-stuck, hand-dipped weenies from September 29 by means of October 22, here’s what she’ll be carrying for the busiest 24 days of her yr.
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Amber got here throughout these snug, not-too-tight sneakers final yr when shopping for her customary new pair of sneakers for truthful season. Since she will likely be on her ft for fourteen hours a day, trekking the fairgrounds’ 277 acres as she oversees the seven Fletcher’s corny canine stands, snug sneakers are essential. With corny canine batter and oil spillage, washable sneakers are essential, too. She’s given up on white, however these are the truthful sneakers she’s shopping for yearly to any extent further.
Athleta Fairway Golf Skort
Finding outfits appropriate for working the fryers but in addition giving impromptu media interviews throughout a Texas September is a problem, particularly when Amber’s pure type is extra like Adam Sandler’s, she says. Hot denims are out, and khakis present grime, however Athleta’s breathable golf skorts are versatile and excellent for Amber’s objective of representing the model and looking out like an proprietor, as her media coach suggested.
Fletcher’s Vintage Ringer Tee
The firm’s best-selling T-shirt for over a decade, this classic orange ringer tee was the Fletcher’s Original Corny Dogs uniform within the seventies. Mackenzie Carpenter, singer of “Country Girls (Just Wanna Have Fun),” donned it simply final month when she opened on the TidalWave Music Festival, in Atlantic City. The design goes again fifty years.
Bandolier Hailey Crossbody iPhone Wallet in Red and Gold
“I’m not a big purse girl,” Amber says, so this crossbody pockets permits her to run round with all that’s most important on the truthful: a cellphone, an ID, and coupons. Not solely can she deliver it on the Crazy Mouse and the log journey, it’s additionally on her when she’s working the stands, the place she by no means is aware of when she’ll have to snap a photograph of a celeb getting in line for a corny canine. Past guests have run the gamut of politicians, athletes, and discuss present hosts: Mikhail Gorbachev, Oprah and Gayle, Dirk Nowitzki, Julia Child, and Emmitt Smith—together with Governor Rick Perry, who has all the time been a corny canine lover.
Revision Skincare’s Intellishade Antiaging Tinted Daily Moisturizer With SPF 45
With pink hair and truthful pores and skin, “I have to wear my sunblock,” Amber says. For ten years, she’s used this tinted moisturizer with SPF 45 from Irving-based Revision Skincare. If she’s in a rush, she will be able to put it on with mascara and nonetheless have that put-together look. It additionally builds properly with make-up and works throughout any time of the yr, with any pores and skin sort, oily or dry.
