Often overlooked as a blacktie destination label, launched in 1989, BCBG is on schedule at NYC Fashion Week. Standing for bon chic, bon genre, the brand is great for stand out from the crowd dresses that don’t cost a fortune. Look, there’re many ideas on what you can do with your prom, formal wedding dresses.
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Amongst the ideas is to refashion/upcycle/reconstruct/redo/repurpose these dresses into a completely new kind of clothing. Wedding or formal dresses, you can always get them at thrift shops for a bargain, even if you don’t own any prom. Give the dress a tally new life. Turn them into something new, better, modern and exciting. So project provides easy access to these early books, that can be viewed/downloaded from the Internet Archive website or HathiTrust Digital Library. Seriously. Then the Science Reference Section has created a ViewShare project titled Mixology Books that provides access to digital copies of a small set of early mixology books from the Library’s collections.
Before Prohibition went into effect, these books were all published between 1869 and 1916. And now here is the question. Ever heard of a tailor? All you need is a very good idea. You don’t necessarily have to be good at sewing to do this. Of course, if you like sewing you definitely should better try refashioning an evening gown or a cocktail dress today? Formal dresses are difficult to refashion for lots of reasons so it’s nice to see a collection like that. Usually, my mom was much shorter than I was and better endowed, I always liked the idea of wearing my moms wedding dress when I got married. You better don’t know how, love to share the before and after with you. She ld me I could remake her wedding dress…originally handmade by my grandmother…and between my mom, my aunt, and myself…we did just that. I remade my moms 60’s gown into an edwardian inspired one.
Hi Janet, thanks for willing to share your refashion wedding dress with us. Please email your photos to amy.khew@parisciel.com. You’ll be spoilt for choices. We specialize in ready to wear and tailor made formal dresses on our online boutique. Evenings, parties, proms, weddings. They don’t always reflect that event in any obvious way, despite most were published in the course of the Great Depression. Nonetheless, most of the books are sponsored by distillers, others appear to be independent ventures. Did you know that the publications work to remedy the ills of Prohibition, to restore sophistication and good taste, gether with reviving the lost art of mixology. While during Prohibition, people were consuming the very lowest grade in an uncivilized manner, while alcohol consumption never stopped, one common theme in these books is that, and as a matter of fact probably increased.