Thursday, April 5, 2012

ball & chain: 1967 edition

How to get ready for that special day in a way that suggests your total unwillingness to go through with it and lets your friends and family know exactly what you think of them? 1967 spent a lot of time answering exactly that question.




Christo's wedding dress design notes, 1967, via Archives of American Art
 
"No really, this is the happiest day of my life!"
 
Physical Details: Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Creator: unidentified photographer
Description: Identification on verso (handwritten): Christo, 1967 Wedding Dress [project]- white satin and silk ropes for opening night fashion show, Museum of Merchandise.
Forms part of: Joan Kron papers 1959-1971
Citation: Christo's wedding dress design notes, 1967 / unidentified photographer. Joan Kron papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.



 

Balenciaga single seam wedding dress, also 1967, via on pins and needles
 
"Yes, I'll be wearing this at the reception as well."




 


Jean Varon wedding dress photographed by Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1967, via fashion vulture
  
"It's anti-malarial."


Use caution.

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Besos! -Skyler
http://www.theseearthlybodies.com/

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