Walking my dog this morning, I happened on a wedding dress made of tissue paper with a pink tulle veil in a shop window. It was so fun, so frilly, so flouncy, so frivolous, so fabulous---if I'd had a flute of champagne in hand, I'd have toasted it, then and there. If I'd had a flute of champagne in hand while walking my dog at 6am, I'd no doubt be telling a different story.
Salutations is a paper shop, filled with notepaper, wedding and shower invitations, and all manner of engraved cards and stationery and related accessories. And two nice young women, one the window designer, who let me come inside today--- to sketch. Now, don't I live in a nice town?
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A tissue paper wedding dress? How perfectly lovely (as is your sketch).
Posted by: Hashi | September 27, 2006 at 07:32 PM
Your title reads like a Peterman catalog.
It would take just the right girl to pull off that dress. I think I know just the one.
Laine and I were talking to a old friend just last night about a woman we know, the wife of another friend, and a school teacher, as irony would have it. When all our kids were little, "A" was the life of the neighborhood pool parties, supplying the Jello shooters and instigating, late on those summer nights after the children had been sent home with sitters, naked water volleyball games (the better to show off her storebought boobs). Asked how she had met her husband, A once explained, "Well, I slept with all of his fraternity brothers and he was the last in line."
I think she could handle this dress. Only she'd wear it as a mother-of-the-bride dress.
Posted by: Dr. Research | September 27, 2006 at 08:07 PM
One of your talents Laura, is your eye for what will make a great drawing subject. This is just wonderful...a real fun drawing. Love it. I should let you see my wedding dress. It makes this one look positively tame .... it was the early 80s ok?! :o)
Posted by: Terri | September 27, 2006 at 08:20 PM
I love your sense of color. Your sketches are so freeing and flowing. Looks like a beautiful dress
Posted by: Toni | September 27, 2006 at 09:21 PM
What a frolic of a dress!
Now all you need is a paper doll to go with your paper dress... Perhaps in the small hours when the card and stationer's shop is closed, she slides out of a drawer and puts on the beautiful paper dress and dances with morning's paper boy.
Posted by: marlyat2 | September 27, 2006 at 09:41 PM
What a wonderful dress and how well you have sketched it. Looks magic. Have a wonderful time in Paris.
Posted by: Penny | September 27, 2006 at 10:41 PM