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<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Paper Caper - 1967 Paper Dresses</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">You can't clean them, but you can snip off the dirty parts.</h2><h4 style="text-align: center;">"The Duchess of Windsor has worn it. Joan Kennedy, wife of the senior senator from Massachusetts, worn paper to a fund raising tea she gave last spring and passed out duplicate dresses to her celebrated guests. Pop painter Robert Rauschenberg has a tailored suit of grocery-bag paper. Princess Lee Radziwill owns a gold quilted mini-mini with gold collar and gold side panels to match her newly gold hair. Jolie Gabor lunches in paper after swimming in her pool. A number of brides have worn it to their own weddings. In the south of France a concert pianist beat the heat by wearing a paper dinner jacket designed by Paris couturier Pierre Cardin, after scissoring off the sleeves so they wouldn't get in the way of the keyboard."</h4><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>If you wanted to get your very own you could check with Scott Paper Co. - two styles at $1.25 each to promote their toilet paper. You could send for paper dresses if you bought Johnston Frozen Pies, or sent two butter wrappers to the American Dairy Association. A Go-Go Light hair lightener box top plus $1.25 could get you two mini-skirted mod-styled paper dresses from the Breck shampoo people..." Air India offered a mail-order sari ("Be the first princess in the palace to own one").</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> Lever Brothers offered a fireproofed "Swinging Dress" in three vibrant colors with matching hat for $1.00 plus two Dove, Lux or Lifebuoy soap wrappers. </b></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>No need to worry about that rattling noise when you walk. Fashion expert Eugenia Sheppard thinks it's the most fun since taffeta.</b></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKRMxSwYSxQ1J9KdxucdN9ypkkum9fqr2QAMsoNdX3eNZLoRY-A9bMIOWgWfGLVS7fqsreylLPZYarws8siXjXQOdexJTCqU4kodPQt-rKwyav3-AcPn0NIu37EpYHJRvXoi42c14iFaRe/s1600/PostDec1967-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKRMxSwYSxQ1J9KdxucdN9ypkkum9fqr2QAMsoNdX3eNZLoRY-A9bMIOWgWfGLVS7fqsreylLPZYarws8siXjXQOdexJTCqU4kodPQt-rKwyav3-AcPn0NIu37EpYHJRvXoi42c14iFaRe/s1600/PostDec1967-5.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The live paper doll above wears paper bracelets and a metalized paper 'lame' handkerchief evening dress by Elisa Daggs ($12.00) The wig is made of Aluminum foil.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfczAscuIjy2pMRlKwtA4Ay8hBtzeAzE1-P9ADw3O1s1Aww_C9DsZ7Y9XSAUDZ1m4cgytcCnG-QELh01I6_TmEa5beqF-gFWT9V84cBsubXVLxumj3yGDN56Jw_2eDn08OsD_ayVnklr3_/s1600/PostDec1967-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfczAscuIjy2pMRlKwtA4Ay8hBtzeAzE1-P9ADw3O1s1Aww_C9DsZ7Y9XSAUDZ1m4cgytcCnG-QELh01I6_TmEa5beqF-gFWT9V84cBsubXVLxumj3yGDN56Jw_2eDn08OsD_ayVnklr3_/s1600/PostDec1967-1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Dressed like a party snapper, tomorrow's hostess may entertain with paper items such as these exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Ud6SERDhnMKCDyUkZOGmZu-zOSq60kdaTBEdiPGUEZx2CKsPgJSOb-0yg0kjLuc2OQ4pj0u-R2r0jdvgjPBF_f0D2VlSd4RSpwDZMYm3u0Qj62gbkxCAYGfAZj2DKCodz7ZpRVZ1EsiB/s1600/PostDec1967-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Ud6SERDhnMKCDyUkZOGmZu-zOSq60kdaTBEdiPGUEZx2CKsPgJSOb-0yg0kjLuc2OQ4pj0u-R2r0jdvgjPBF_f0D2VlSd4RSpwDZMYm3u0Qj62gbkxCAYGfAZj2DKCodz7ZpRVZ1EsiB/s1600/PostDec1967-3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The bikini, made of polycoated Kaycel, costs $4 and is usually a throwaway after four dips.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgbOD7VWFJr_UcB9dvK6eRooYsKrWdJxvIxXv9RdMQ6uZDbIQON80_v7CdEGYbGy5YtagKYbjdKADS5ED7Y3H5Yme3HQBoRhIOrjWMKbHblWSKiqhcmAPDnaUm6BwYpG34luk-vEPV4scx/s1600/PostDec1967-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgbOD7VWFJr_UcB9dvK6eRooYsKrWdJxvIxXv9RdMQ6uZDbIQON80_v7CdEGYbGy5YtagKYbjdKADS5ED7Y3H5Yme3HQBoRhIOrjWMKbHblWSKiqhcmAPDnaUm6BwYpG34luk-vEPV4scx/s1600/PostDec1967-2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The slicker of polycoated Lexon ($8) is good for two dozen outings.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPWOLZ-IK-VKoFFFLjX5Vy9LiZ2NoJRphxMB-c2hLk2wRTxzK5c8UTP09BT0rcOP3v1alDeKCUWItulWonpWtN9Tt24BBGSWjpkaOuQ4JVx5XmsMhe4v-tdv9Zgg9FQetpR3hXEaHHrnz/s1600/PostDec1967-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPWOLZ-IK-VKoFFFLjX5Vy9LiZ2NoJRphxMB-c2hLk2wRTxzK5c8UTP09BT0rcOP3v1alDeKCUWItulWonpWtN9Tt24BBGSWjpkaOuQ4JVx5XmsMhe4v-tdv9Zgg9FQetpR3hXEaHHrnz/s1600/PostDec1967-11.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Paper<i> haute couture</i> includes a wiggy mini, a key-tag and Green Stamp shift, an 'ermine' cape, informal and glittery evening dress, colorful at-home slippers.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div>

It's 1967 - Let's Wear Paper Dresses!

The Paper Caper - 1967 Paper Dresses You can't clean them, but you can snip off the dirty parts. "The Duchess of Windsor has worn i...

It's 1967 - Let's Wear Paper Dresses!

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