The Garden Club of LBI’s Holiday Tour of Homes is like Disney World for design and decorating enthusiasts. Full of charm and class, sparkle and sass, last week’s 55th installment brought ticketholders out in cold-weather finery, prepared to park far away and stand in line outside for an hour or more to get in.

Girlfriends, mother-daughter duos and family groups happily chatted away the time. Tour takers, upon exiting, promised the line-weary the wait would pay off – and they were right.

Bags and cameras are prohibited inside the show homes, and shoes must be covered while walking through.

“Visitors happily donned their paper slippers to ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ their way through five upscale houses from Barnegat Light to Beach Haven,” according to Publicity Director Gillian Rozicer, who described the club’s collective decorating style as “clever and lush.”

A feast for the eyes and imagination, the tour is a large-scale production encompassing the whole Island and exhibiting…