FARMINGTON The uniquely Farmington tradition of dressing Sunny up for an event unfolded, literally, Wednesday afternoon.
Sunny is 'The Big Man' who stands on the roof of Sun Glass on East Main Street and whose outfits match key seasons and thai traditional dress events in town. His outfits mark the Connie Mack World Series, the National High School Finals Rodeo, the high school prom season and, of course, the holiday season.
The latest costume Sunny is donning is a Santa outfit for Farmington's Christmas parade.
Pauline Ryburn, owner of the Sew What company, creates Sunny's clothing and draped dress the patterns from which she crafts it.
'For his baseball outfit I can make a pattern and sew it in about four days,' Ryburn said. 'Pants and army dress up shirts take about 12 yards of fabric apiece.'
Ryburn did not create the original Santa outfit, but she and her brother, Paul Edney, have dyed itreplaced Sunny's original rubber beard with one made from fiberglass. Edney also touches up Sunny's fiberglass body when it's needed.
'He's 22 feet tall, so we lay him down to dress him,' said Cliff Freeman of Sun Glass. 'It takes 10 men to dress him. The outfit weighs 500 pounds.'
It should, being made of upholstery material.
Plans called for Sunny to be standing back on the building's roof in time for today's BP America Farmington Christmas Parade, which starts at 5:45 p.m. downtown on Main Street.
He's been a part of the Sun Glass building since 2005, when Freeman purchased him from a building
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