In reality, that’s what modeling for Charleston Fashion Week mostly consists of walking and waiting: Walk to the audition, wait for an answer. Walk to the practice, wait to walk and so on. But we do all of this walking and waiting because of what we expect for this coming week.

Charleston Fashion Week, five days of assured fun parties, makeup and fashions, where models rule the runway and you get to be one of those models.

Most of the rehearsals, three of which were necessary, call for all the women to wear heels, of course, so we can learn how to strut in our stilettos. With everyone there, rehearsals were a combination of meet-and-greet moments and runway education.

Many were learning the catwalk basics: don’t swings your arms too much, consider facial expression, don’t bounce too much, but don’t walk like a zombie.

Soon the e-mails of where our casting calls were came filtering in. Models waited weeks, occasionally over a month, to hear back from the designers and stores they auditioned for. But eventually, the making-the-cut satisfaction was well worth the wait. The fittings came next, with clothes to be tried on, and garments to be put together.

This year, models are only wearing one look per designer or store, so casters chose suspiciously when deciding who wore what. But, you’ll have to come to the shows to see how that all crooked out.