PHOTOS: Hundreds come dressed to impress at Red Dress Run 2019

Runners take part 25th annual New Orleans Red Dress Run that is put on by the Hash House Harriers who call their group A Drinking Club with a Running Problem in New Orleans, La. Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. The annual event also raises money for charities awarding over $1 million in grants over the years. Most people dont run and instead hang out in the French Quarter. Photo by Matthew Hinton

PHOTOS: Hundreds come dressed to impress at Red Dress Run 2019

Hundreds clad in crimson frocks took to the street Saturday running/walking/staggering through the Vieux Carré.

by Matthew Hinton | August 12, 2019

Hundreds clad in crimson frocks took to the street Saturday running/walking/staggering through the Vieux Carré. The New Orleans Hash House Harriers host its annual Red Dress Run — a charity “run” in New Orleans. The runners take on a 2-mile route through the French Quarter and Marigny.

Check out these pictures from the run:

Photo, via https://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/exhibitions

A New Orleans Police Officer dances by the Good Friends Bar in the French Quarter with a runner taking part 25th annual New Orleans Red Dress Run that is put on by the Hash House Harriers who call their group A Drinking Club with a Running Problem in New Orleans, La. Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. The annual event also raises money for charities awarding over $1 million in grants over the years. Most people dont run and instead hang out in the French Quarter. Photo by Matthew Hinton

Runners take part 25th annual New Orleans Red Dress Run, featuring men and women in dresses, that is put on by the Hash House Harriers who call their group A Drinking Club with a Running Problem in New Orleans, La. Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. The annual event also raises money for charities awarding over $1 million in grants over the years. Most people dont run and instead hang out in the French Quarter. Photo by Matthew Hinton

Matthew Hinton

Matthew Hinton is a New Orleans area freelance photographer whose work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Awards in 2014 and 2016, and by numerous awards from the Press Club of New Orleans, including the Hal Ledet President's Print Photography Award, the highest honor the Press Club can bestow upon a photographer.
Matthew Hinton has previously been a staff photographer at both of the daily newspapers in New Orleans. His work has appeared nationally and internationally through freelance work with the Associated Press and AFP, Agence France-Presse.