Arhhh--phantom send--about the squaw dress--I realize the term is not PC now, but in the late 1950s, early 1960s, the "squaw dress" was a dress with multiple tiers on the skirt, accented with rows of braid and rickrack, often metallic. My grandmother made me such a dress out of a nylon parachute my dad provided, with silver and pink trim. Alas, I barely fit into it when she made it and wasn't really able to wear it at all, to my great regret. But I had lots of the nylon fabric left over and later made my Barbie doll a wedding dress out of it. Ann Wass In a message dated 6/17/2011 7:21:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lynndownw...@gmail.com writes:
There's a side story line about a wedding during the war in the British production, UXB, that was on PBS several years ago where the groom's friends have/steal/buy a parachute for the wedding dress. I't been a long time since i saw the program. LynnD On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Jean Waddie < anne.montgome...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Haven't heard of that one specifically, but dresses made from parachute > silk generally, certainly, in Britain. Fabric was rationed, so there were > all sorts of ways of getting enough for a wedding dress, if you had time to > prepare (many weddings were on-the-spot when the groom managed to get a > day's leave). I have a feeling many of the British ones were made from > German parachutes though, when enemy planes were shot down. > > Jean > > > On 17/06/2011 18:25, m...@aol.com wrote: > >> Has anyone heard of this wedding dress? >> >> _http://historyisclassic.**blogspot.com/2011/06/one-of-** >> kind-wedding.html?spref<http://historyisclassic.blogspot.com/2011/06/one-of-kind-wedding.html?spref> >> =fb_ >> (http://historyisclassic.**blogspot.com/2011/06/one-of-** >> kind-wedding.html?spref=fb<http://historyisclassic.blogspot.com/2011/06/one-of-kind-wedding.html?spref=fb> >> ) >> >> Kelly Albrecht, ncc, amft >> m...@aol.com >> www.mysensaria.com/time2spa >> ______________________________**_________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> h-costume@mail.indra.com >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
