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By: Kenn

Kenn — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:12:03 +0000

Hi Ingrid;
The museum doesn’t have a permanent home yet, the collection is actually located in Cambridge at the moment but we hope to be able to find a permanent location soon. If you keep checking in with the blog we will keep the museum’s location updated!
Jonathan

By: Ingrid Mida

Ingrid Mida — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:39:32 +0000

I have a love for paper dresses. Where is the fashion history museum in Guelph? I live in Toronto and sometimes make a trip out that way. I especially love With the Grain bakery….

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:59:20 +0000

I’ll never forget a banquet in high school that I wore a paper dress! This was in the mid 1960s. The cheerleaders were serving for the guys teams banquet. As I was moving about the room, I realized my paper dress started to tear! I had to leave … or else! What a night that way. These bring such “fun” memories!

By: Betty

Betty — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:37:31 +0000

I was 17 in 1967. I lived this era. I also sent away for a $1.00 ‘aluminum’
foil’ dress. This dress was sold off the back of the Parkay Margerine box.
It arrived after two weeks. It came folded in a rectangle shape, all silver and some what crinkled. It was an A-Line shape and I looked like Twiggy in those days. I put it on and realized I wasn’t the kind of girl who had the hutzpah to wear it in public but I did enjoy wearing it for 15 minutes for my boyfriend that night. He liked it very much. We both laughed and I then put it away for ever. (He is my husband of 39 yrs and he still remembers it). It really would not have been durable enough to wear out. I just knew that little dress was part of some kind of marking of history but also that it was too impractical to be more than a short lived trend. Your paper dresses are certainly the Top-Drawer of the era. Thank you for putting all of them on one page. Betty, a 17 year old Ohioan in 1977.