Guess I have to weigh in that, in the early 1960s, my grandmother made me a so-called "squaw drees" out of a nylon parachute that my dad provided. In a message dated 6/17/2011 7:21:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] 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 < [email protected]> 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, [email protected] 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 >> [email protected] >> www.mysensaria.com/time2spa >> ______________________________**_________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
