post by: trish
Ahhhhhhhhhh, thank you internet. I recently stumbled on a blog post by Bobbin Talk highlighting some of the featured origami paper dresses in an exhibit, Paper Fashion at the MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp. Even though the exhibit has ended the pictures and posts I have seen and read since first discovery will continue to inspire me. My mother and her sister’s wore paper dresses in the 60’s. When I was little and first heard about such dresses, they so intrigued me. I can so see my mom with her short really blond almost platinum hair wearing them. She told she and her sister’s would get a couple wears out of them and then toss them. Do you think paper dresses played a part in the notion of throw away fashion? hmmmmm….
It really must have been fun at the time. Partly because I think clothes were very rarely thrown away and the cycle of fashion trends were much slower than today. The novelty for my mom and her sister’s to buy something so cheap, ultra trendy, wear once or twice, toss away, buy a new different one must have been so liberating. It is hard for me to imagine but I think about the contrast of these inexpensive dresses that could be tossed after a couple of uses in comparison to the tailored wool & mohair suits my mom and aunt’s used to make themselves to wear to school. Some of the suits remained in our attic for as long as I can remember. You would never throw those away.
Anyway, enjoy the pictures and digging around. Hope they inspire an interesting thought today.
All photos by Antwerp Fashion Observer
Cheers,
trishdarling
