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Subject: [h-cost] one of a kind wedding dress
Has anyone heard of this wedding dress?
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Sadly, this is an Algonquin (specifically Wappanoag) word that means matron,
that a young Iroquoian woman decided was an English bastardization of an
Iroquois word that mean vagina.
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] one of a kind wedding dress
Sadly, this is an Algonquin (specifically Wappanoag) word that means matron,
that a young Iroquoian woman decided was an English bastardization of an
Iroquois word that mean vagina.
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squaw
I know from attending a Chickahominy Powwow last year they stated that it is
not a favorable word.
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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
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
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,
lynndownw...@gmail.com writes:
There's a side story line about a wedding
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
