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“Pulp Fashion”: Paper Dresses of the 1960s

Another group of garments from The Henry Ford’s rich collection of clothing and accessories makes its debut in “ What We Wore ” in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Who knew that a company that made toilet tissue and paper towels would start a fashion sensation? In April 1966, the Scott Paper Company launched a promotion for its new line of colorful paper products. Along with two proofs of purchase and $1.25 for shipping, customers could redeem a coupon for a paper dress, choosing from a red paisley bandana pattern or a black-and-white op art print. The media took immediate notice. So did the public. Scott’s “Paper Caper” dresses became a surprise hit. Soon fashion enthusiasts were wearing not only Scott’s dresses, but paper apparel created by other manufacturers and designers who quickly joined in the trend. The 1960s was an era of exploration and pushing boundaries. It was the space age--people envisioned an exciting future where everything was conveniently automated. New materials and disposability were in. Paper apparel promised convenience--you could simply discard it after one wearing. Altering the hemline was a snap--all it took was a pair of scissors and a steady hand. A tear? You could do a quick repair with sticky tape. The A-line shape and trendy prints of the paper dress fit perfectly with the youthful “Mod” look and aesthetic sensibilities of the 1960s. You could be up-to-the-minute at little cost--clothing could be quickly and cheaply replaced as trends shifted. There was a paper dress for every budget--from those on the shelves of mass-market retailer J.C. Penney to the chic creations carried by Manhattan boutiques. People bought over a million paper garments between 1966 and 1968. Some envisioned throwaway clothing as the wave of the future. Yet, by early 1968, the craze was beginning to cool. Paper clothing was not really practical or comfortable for everyday use. And the hippie movement--with its back-to-nature values and strong anti-pollution message--was changing public opinion. What had seemed hip and modern now seemed frivolous and wasteful. A bit of novelty in an era of experimentation, the paper dress fad was fun while it lasted.

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How to Make a Paper Dress

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A paper dress can be a fun project for an afternoon. You can also wear a paper dress to a costume party. The process of making a paper dress can take a long time, so have patience. You'll make the bottom first, and then make a top piece to go with it. Once you're finished, you'll have a fun, flowing paper dress to show off.

Collecting Supplies and Taking Measurements

• Old newspaper is commonly recycled. If you know a neighbor who's big into recycling, try asking him or her if they have any old newspaper to spare.
• You may also be able to find old newspaper at the recycling bin of a local dump, but make you ask worker if taking the paper is okay. Check at your local grocery store as well. If they have day old newspapers they intend to throw out, they may be willing to give these papers to you. [1] X Research source

• You will need a pen or a pencil.
• Make sure to get a non-toxic brand of adhesive tape.
• You should get a tape measure, which you can purchase at a local drugstore if you do not have one on-hand.
• You'll need some string. You can use shoe string, or buy a thick bundle of string at a local craft store.

• To measure your waist, grab your tape measure. Place the end of the tape measure directly on your skin, halfway between your lowest rib and the top of your hip bone. This should be more or less in line with your belly button. [5] X Research source
• Breath out and wrap the tape measure around your waist, making sure it's smooth without twists or wrinkles. Write down the size of your waist before removing the tape measure.
• Mark your waist size on top of the taped together newspaper. For example, say your waist is 22 inches. Start at the end of one piece of newspaper and stretch the tape measure out 22 inches. Use your pen to make a small vertical line on top of the newspaper marking the 22 inch mark.
• If you're having trouble holding the newspapers in place, ask a friend to help.

Creating the Full Skirt

• How many newspaper you'll need to layer depends on the size of your skirt. If you have a bigger waist, you'll need more newspapers.
• Length is optional. You can stop with one extra layer of newspapers wrapping around the skirt. If you want a longer skirt, however, add another layer. This time, tape new newspapers over the overlapping portions of newspaper you added to the original skirt. The ends of these new newspapers should be taped down about halfway between the first layer of newspaper you added. [10] X Research source
• Place one of your newspaper strips along one side of the slit at the back of your skirt. Tape the tip of the strip down on top of the slit. Then, move down about an inch and place another piece of tape across the strip. The idea is to create a series of slots along the seam of the dress, through which you'll later weave string to secure the dress in place. Keep taping down the slit of newspaper, leaving about one inch of space between pieces of tape, until you reach the end of the slit.
• Repeat the same process on the other side, using the other strip. Make sure the slots you create on the other side line up with slots you originally created.
• Then, take several pieces of string. Feed one piece of string between each slot on one side. Then, pass this piece of string through the corresponding slot on the other side. When you're ready to put on your skirt, you will tie the strings together to secure it. Later, when you want to take off your skirt, you can untie the strings.

Forming the Dress's Top

• Take the two taped together pieces of newspaper forming the top of your dress. Cut a small slit about halfway through the non-curved end of one piece. The slit should not go all the way to the top of the newspaper. Cut about halfway up the newspaper.
• Now, pull one end of the slit over the other end, bending your top at a slight angle. Tape these pieces together. Repeat this process on the other side.
• You will probably need someone to help you secure the dress in place.

Community Q&A

• If you wear this in rain or other bad weather, the dress will melt off. Wear undergarments (a short skirt and undershirt) in case this happens so that you are not parading around in your underwear. Thanks Helpful 23 Not Helpful 9
• Keep away from fire. Thanks Helpful 23 Not Helpful 12

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To make a paper dress, start by laying two sheets of newspaper side by side and taping them together. Then, wrap the paper around your waist, overlap the ends, and point the ends downwards slightly to form a triangular shape. Once you're happy with the position, tape it together to form the skirt. Next, add several layers of newspaper to the middle of your skirt to lengthen it. To make the top, tape 2 sheets of paper together and cut the tops so you have 2 upward-facing curves that look like a low-cut dress. Then, secure the paper around your torso with tape. To learn how to make a draw string for your skirt and taper in the top at your waist, read on! Did this summary help you? Yes No

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Paper dresses

In the 1960s, society fell in love with the idea of progress. Young people with disposable incomes embraced the cult of the new, becoming keen consumers of fun, informal and fast-changing trends. This appetite for novelty fuelled one of the decade's most frivolous fashion crazes: the paper dress.

The perfect expression of fashion's own fickleness, these two-dimensional shift dresses were cheap and 'disposable' – designed to be worn only once or twice – and proved ideal vehicles for the bold, graphic prints that had become so popular during the decade.

The invention of mass-produced paper fashion is attributed to Scott Paper, an American company that made toilet tissues, baby wipes and other sanitary products. In 1966 Scott Paper produced a simple disposable shift dress out of 'Dura-Weave', a cellulose material already used to make laundry-reducing garments for hospital workers. The dress, which was printed in two patterns – one monochrome and strikingly Op Art, the other in red paisley – was intended to be a short-lived 'teaser' product, a promo for the company’s new throwaway tableware range. You could get one of the dresses in the post, along with coupons for the tableware range, by sending Scott just $1.25. They became a surprise sensation, with over half a million orders received in less than a year.

The huge potential of the 'promotional dress' was soon capitalised on by other companies and concerns, such as the 1967 'Souper Dress'. Printed with rows of identical Campbell's Soup tins, this wearable advertising was a wry take on the iconic Warhol painting which had turned a homely foodstuff in to conceptual art five years before. The power of the throwaway dress as a vehicle for bold prints was also harnessed for political ends. In the US the 1968 Nixon presidential campaign commissioned a special design – the letters N-I-X-O-N in red, interspersed with blue stars – for female supporters to wear at rallies.

The fashion world in the US and then the UK adopted the paper dress as the answer to the decade's restless appetite for 'the new'. Labels such as Poster Dress, Wastebasket Boutique and Dipso were dedicated to producing fast-changing ranges of disposable garments that allowed customers to easily stay abreast of trends. Designers like Ossie Clark also launched their own range of 'throwaways'. At the height of demand, Mars Hosiery (the makers behind Wastebasket Boutique) was producing 100,000 dresses a week. The 'no sew' nature of paper dresses made them a good fit for female consumers keen to reject the 'Make Do and Mend' attitude of the previous generation. Paper dresses could be altered in minutes with scissors and Sellotape: much more fun than spending a night in with your sewing basket. And for those young women who were keen to explore the decade's increasing freedoms, going out in a dress that was blatantly easy to tear off posed an exciting way to underline the new sexual politics.

Other women wanted their dress to last for longer than a single wear. Unsurprisingly, the original paper-fibre dresses were prone to tearing or creasing, so manufacturers capitalised on advances in material technology to make more robust versions from wood pulp mixed with synthetic fibres (rayon, nylon and polyester). These new composite fabrics could be 'refreshed' by ironing on a cool setting, or even washed (although not more than once or twice). For a brief time, it looked like the paper dress might be the long-term future of clothes manufacturing. That is until high-street shops were able to compete by offering a quicker turnover of everyday fashions in materials that were cheap, relatively long lasting and far more wearable than cellulose. The political mood was shifting, too, encouraging people to fall out of love with the paper dress. Towards the end of the decade, hippy culture began to foster distaste for consumerist, throwaway ideas. By the end of 1968, the 'paper caper' garments that had been so popular only two years earlier had become yesterday's news.

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When Paper Clothing Was the Perfect Fit

A war-weary world needed a new wardrobe, and this cheap, washable attire seemed to rise to the occasion

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For cost-conscious clothing shoppers in 1920, it must have seemed like a miracle: men’s suits in a choice of 50 different styles for a mere 60 cents each (about $7.66 today). What’s more, when a suit got dirty, you could easily clean it—with an eraser.

Paper clothing had arrived, largely imported from Germany and Austria, where World War I shortages of wool and other materials had spurred its development. It had already caught on in Italy and Turkey as well as England, which was still recovering from the effects of the war. As the Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported, German-made suits were selling in London for the equivalent of 46 cents to $1.95, and at the current exchange rate, a man could buy a new suit each week of the year for less than a single British-made wool suit would cost him.

Before the U.S. entered the war against Germany in April 1917, American newspapers and magazines ran admiring articles about the country’s inventiveness in developing substitutes for all kinds of raw materials. The German word ersatz , for “substitute” or “replacement,” was introduced to the everyday American vocabulary.

In January 1917, the New York Sun noted that the Germans had devised paper-based threads for making “sacks and bags, girdles, doilies, aprons, working garments,” as well as dresses and other clothing. “The inventors have discovered a way to give the ‘paper cloth’ great resistance to dampness,” the reported added, answering one obvious question on readers’ minds. Other articles noted that the Germans made parts of military uniforms out of paper, including those worn by their pilots and submarine crews.

Despite what skeptical readers may have assumed, the clothing wasn’t made by simply gluing sheets of paper together. As the trade publication Paper explained, the most common method was to “cut the paper into narrow strips and twist these strips on spindles” for weaving yarn. The yarn could then be woven into cloth on a loom, much like traditional fibers.

After the war’s end in November 1918, paper was heralded as an all-purpose super material perfect for the rebuilding of battle-ravaged France and Belgium. That included waterproof housing made of pasteboard and other paper products. “Such dwellings have oiled paper in place of glass windows. They will be put together with screws made of wood pulp,” the New York Sun reported in February 1919. “Tables, chairs and other bits of furniture now are being made of paper. Even kitchen utensils are so constructed.”

The advantage of paper-based products wasn’t just that they could be produced inexpensively; they were also lighter to ship. What’s more, although countries like Germany and Austria were able to import wool again after the war, there wasn’t enough of it to go around. Even the United States, a wool exporter, faced a shortage, in part because so much of the material had been diverted to make uniforms, blankets, and munitions during the war. Trees, however, remained relatively plentiful, and the Germans had discovered that in a pinch it was possible to make cloth from reeds and other plants.

But it was the possibilities of paper clothing that captured attention in the U.S., especially after the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce imported a batch of Austrian paper suits, displayed them at its offices in Washington, D.C., and then sent them on tour to cities around the country. When the Washington exhibit opened in September 1920, the Associated Press noted that “one suit is quoted at fifteen cents, and is washable.” The exhibit also featured paper table covers, laundry bags, wall decorations and twine, among other items.

The A.P. reported that the suits were “described as warm, comfortable and durable, considering the fabric of which they are made, and not liable to tear or go to pieces when wet.” But a widely published news photo taken around the same time seemed to belie that image. A family of three—“mama, papa, and sonny”—posed for the camera wearing paper suits from Austria and looking about as comfortable as if they’d been dressed in grocery sacks.

It might have seemed like a magnanimous gesture on the government’s part to promote products from nations the U.S. had recently fought on the battlefields of Europe. But there were more practical motives at work. The U.S. was still a major exporter of inexpensive clothing at that point, and American manufacturers would now have to compete against the far-cheaper paper products in foreign markets, where consumers often had little disposable income. The Commerce Department’s traveling exhibit could give clothing makers across the country a chance to examine their competition first-hand. What’s more, if paper clothing were to catch on, American paper mills and manufacturers might want in on the action too.

“It seems quite evident now that the German and Austrian manufacturers intend to cover the markets of the world with their paper substitutes for real clothing,” the American trade publication Textile World observed . On a more hopeful note, it added that, “Officials in Washington do not believe that this competition will ever be felt in the United States. The material used in the German product is too coarse and crude to meet with favor here to any extent unless many refinements are adopted.”

Still, the American public was intrigued, and some adventurous souls decided to try paper clothing on for size.

One reporter found a Philadelphia businessman strolling the boardwalk of Atlantic City in a “natty” suit of lightweight brown paper. Not only was his suit made of paper, he told his interviewer, but his shirt collar and necktie were as well. The suit had cost him 75 cents, the collar and tie 7 cents each, for a grand total of 89 cents. At the time, a wool suit alone would have cost him $30 or more.

While menswear seemed to get most of the attention, paper clothing for women and children was hitting the racks of many retailers, as well. A 1920 news photo showed three women happily modeling paper suits said to cost from 25 to 50 cents. And, the caption added, “they are washable.” In fact, some paper clothing could be washed, though only by hand, and it couldn’t be rung out afterwards but had to be hung up to dry.

The following summer, a news photographer snapped a female beachgoer in Chicago, modeling a $1.50 bathing costume created by a local paper manufacturer. The suit “has withstood surprisingly well all tests for rough treatment and water wear,” the caption reported. In the fall came reports of a Chicago manufacturer whose fancy $2 women’s hats offered an “imitation of straw and cloth [that] defies detection,” complete, in some cases, with paper feathers.

Also that fall, a paper suit created by a Wisconsin manufacturer drew crowds at a New York City trade show. The New-York Tribune reported that the suit was “extremely light in weight, a dark blue in color and to appearance very durable. At a short distance one easily mistakes it for a suit of tweed.”

Not everyone was convinced. A representative of the National Clothing Manufacturers’ Association scoffed that paper clothing “would not be practicable in America. We are too accustomed to pushing out our elbows or to stepping lively to exist long in a paper suit.”

The magazine Scientific American said that while the German imports “come pretty close to our American ideas of cheap but wearable clothes” they were “too heavy for comfort.”

Even the paper industry was unenthused. “No one,” a Yale professor of forest products wrote, “wants to wear paper clothing if he can get anything better.”

Indeed, by the mid-1920s, the novelty had worn off, due not only to paper’s limitations but to America’s roaring prosperity. It was a rare man who wanted to be seen about town in a 60-cent suit.

The arrival of the Great Depression in 1929 did little to revive interest in paper clothing, no matter how cheap. Consumers preferred to wear wool and cotton until it was threadbare rather than put on paper. Perhaps they thought they were suffering enough already.

Decades later, in the 1960s, paper dresses would make a brief comeback, with bold colors, pop-art patterns, and psychedelic designs. Groovy as the fad might have seemed at the time, it proved even shorter-lived than its 1920s forerunner.

While the ’60s dresses didn’t revolutionize the clothing business, they turned out to be a surprisingly good investment for anyone with the foresight to save one. An Andy Warhol-inspired paper dress featuring Campbell’s soup cans (which the soup company offered for $1 in 1968) sold for $1,600 at an auction this past May. Similar dresses are already in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington.

From that perspective, at least, paper clothing might not have been such a bad idea, after all.

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Paper Fashion in the 1960s: The Genesis of Fast Fashion

Blog post by Livia Caligor ’21

Packaging for the “Silverfoil” dress.

As my fingers skimmed through the funky, pattern-clad dresses hanging from the 1960s aisle in the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection , they suddenly halted when landing upon a rough metallic material. Perplexed by the unexpected texture in a sea of neon, geometric patterns and retro silhouettes, I pulled out a floor-length, aluminum foil gown wrapped in a crinkled plastic coating. This tubular metallic gown was made of metallic plastic that is essentially a disposable crêpe paper. There are darts from the side seam to bust but no other stitches, folds, or hems. There are two loose straps on both the left and the right side of the dress, in both the front and the back, allowing for multiple ways of creating strap ties or bows. The metallic plastic almost appears to have a crocodile-skin texture upon close inspection.

As I stared at this Space Age floor-length paper gown, the labels on the packing were almost as puzzling and abnormal as the garment itself. Splashed across the top of the label, next to a caricature of a figure glistening in the metallic gown, read “NEW! From The… ‘Waste Basket Boutique’ Collection, The Silverfoil Floor Length Dress.” “Mars of Asheville,” the brand, instructed the wearer to press the gown with a cool iron and shorten it with scissors; after all, it is a disposable garment. Perhaps the most uncanny aspect of the packaging is the sizing chart, which reads, “Teeny: 4-6, Tiny: 8-10, Bigger: 12-14, Biggest: 16-18.” A clear indicator of the drastically different beauty standards in the 60s, this sizing chart, along with the the garment’s collection name, markets the dress in an almost comical and entertaining manner. I wondered why this paper fashion line would design and sell a galaxy-inspired plastic garment that was advertised as a product of one’s garbage can scraps.

Adam MacParlain, curatorial assistant in Fashion Arts & Textiles Collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum, shares their extant example of a 1966 Campbell’s Soup Paper Dress.

Upon further research, I discovered that this disposable gown, which was donated by Susan Greene in 2002 after being deaccessioned from the collection at Chemung Historical Society in Elmira, NY, was not an anomaly in 1960s fashion, but a fashion trend.  From space-age to maternity, designer styles to those produced by the Campbell’s Soup Company, disposable paper dresses are emblematic of of 1960s fashion and are an early example of fast fashion.

Early examples of paper dresses from the Scott Paper Co.

In 1966, Scott Paper Co. invented the paper garment as a promotion gimmick. Mocking a culture that was increasingly accustomed to disposable paper goods, Scott Paper Company employed the paper dress as a tongue-in-cheek marketing tool: women could buy the paper dress for one dollar and receive a variety of coupons for other paper goods. The paper dress came in two designs, one that was a black and white op art print, and the other that was a red bandana print.

The “Mars of Asheville” metallic gown in the CCTC was a continuation of a culture that had grown accustomed to disposable paper goods and utensils. The company marketed their dresses as clothing “created to make you the conversation piece at parties. Smashingly different at dances or perfectly packaged at picnics. Wear it anytime…anywhere. Won’t last forever…who cares? Wear it for kicks — then give it the air.” In eight months after the brand’s genesis, Scott Paper Co. sold half a million dresses, and they abruptly ended their campaign; they did not want to become clothing manufacturers.

With the demand for paper garments continuing to skyrocket, other designers and manufacturers quickly filled the new void in the industry. Mars of Asheville became the most famous producer of paper dresses, selling 80,000 to 100,000 pieces a week. They even began to sell jumpsuits, vests, childrenswear, and — believe it or not — swimwear! These paper products could be worn a handful of times, adjusted with scissors and scotch tape if need be, and tossed in a wastebasket by the time a new fad emerged. Although entitled paper dresses, most were composed of approximately 93% cellulose and 7% nylon or made of “Dura-weave,” which was rayon-reinforced cellulose. Thus, they were durable enough to withstand a few wears. Occasional velcro detailing rendered them even more Space Age-esque in the public eye. They were sold everywhere, from corner stores and pharmacies to boutiques and malls. Consumers would often buy paper goods that matched their garments, and the expediency of their purchase implied a modern and leisurely lifestyle.

A better quality version of “The Silverfoil Floor Length Dress” included binding around the neckline and armscye.

Another floor-length silver foil Mars of Asheville gown found in the CCTC’s collection was constructed in a more detailed manner and even contains binding. The crêpe plastic fabric seems to have reinforcement thread running across it, creating a geometric pattern and eye-catching texture. This silver foil gown was perhaps more durable than the first, due to the sturdy binding, which renders the fabric tougher and more difficult to pull. Although this dress did not come in packaging, the tag on the inside conveys similar information as the packaging of the first, warning the wearer from washing the garment.

“Tuscany” brand paper dress, donated by Beverley Birks

These two silver dresses are perhaps more funky and avant-garde instances of paper dresses. They were most likely worn on special occasions; in the collection, I also unearthed multiple pret-a-porter paper dresses that were meant for daily wear. One 1968 multicolored paper jumper by Tuscany is especially emblematic of the 1960s paper garment movement. Donated by costume curator and collector Beverley Birks in 2001, this yellow paper dress features an abstract pink, green, and blue foliage print that seems as if it was applied to the paper hastily. The dress also features an oversized pocket on the lower front of the garment. The garment’s arm holes and neckline were hemmed, but the bottom was not. Conforming to the trending 1960s-mod A-line silhouette, the garment was most likely very cost effective to produce. Thus, the funky yet hastily-created print, silhouette, functional pocket, and disposability render this garment an emblem of 1960s paper fashion.

Although the paper garment trend peaked in the late 1960s, when they hit European shores and entered the Beatles’ wardrobe, they were not far cheaper to produce than ordinary clothing. By 1974, this fad had died down; as environmental concerns became a larger topic of discussion, nature and hippie-inspired styles replaced the Mod and Pop styles.

Seams of this paper dress were sewn, but their integrity was questionable. Notice that actual fabric bias-binding was used along the neckline and armscye.

While most paper garments found their way to trash bins by the 1970s, the concept has been reincarnated into a new form today. Not only was Harry Gordon’s 1967 paper Poster Dress featured on a wall of 1960s shift dresses at MoMA’s “Elements: Is Fashion Modern?” (on view through January 28, 2018), paper fashion as a whole has also impacted our society’s current consumer culture. The fast fashion industry’s process of capitalizing upon fads through expedient and exploitative overproduction and our consumer mentality of over consuming disposable goods mimic the structure of the paper garment industry. However, they hold different social and environmental connotations. When I asked Beverley Birks, donor of the Tuscany paper dress, for her thoughts on paper garments in relation to the genesis of fast fashion, she expressed that “Environmentalism didn’t exist as a subject back then. It was just starting. [Paper garments] represented freedom from labor, freedom from making clothes. It was so that you didn’t have to do stuff, iron garments, wash garments…. It was a disposable item. But things change I do remember being told at Cornell that we have to change our way of life, and I think that’s more true today than it was then, and a lot more people are realizing that. The planet can’t take [fast fashion].” While paper fashions of the late 1960s represented liberty, novelty, and experimentation, its contemporary manifestation—fast fashion—takes on a much more dangerous form by threatening the environmental, exploiting human labor, and creating massive amounts of textile waste.

Label found on the “Silverfoil” dress.

“Mars of Asheville .” Asheville Art Museum: Latest News and Announcements , Asheville Art Museum , 2015, www.ashevilleart.org/artists/mars-of-asheville/.

GlamourSurf. “The Disposable Paper Dresses of 1967.” GlamourSplash , 21 Nov. 2008, www.glamoursplash.com/2008/11/disposable-paper-dresses-of-1967.html and Costume Society Ambassadors. “Dare to Tear: Paper Fashions in the 1960s.” The Costume Society , 9 Feb. 2015, costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/dare-to-tear-paper-fashions-in-the-1960s.

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Good job Livia….I am pleased to see those wacky paper things being set into context. As a survivor of the 70s I can say then I did not know paper clothes existed, or at least I never laid eyes on them so I have to wonder who bought them!

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When Paper Was Fashion’s Favorite Material

It’s hip, it’s happening, it’s wow, it’s now, it’s gone: RIP the paper dress, 1966–1968.

The paper dress was a blip on fashion’s radar, popular for just two years, between 1966 and 1968. But when these dresses came to the market, they couldn’t be made fast enough. As art historians and curators Stamos Fafalios and Vassilis Zidianakis write , thousands of the dresses were produced and sold at “drugstores, supermarkets, department stores, and by mail order in exchange for clipped coupons and box tops.” But this short fad had a long-lasting impact. As Fafalios and Zidianakis argue, “its merger of paper, visual art, wearable form and consumer delight summarizes a culturally dynamic moment, and remains an inspiration to contemporary artists and designers.”

Paper fashions had been worn well before they became trendy. In Japan, for example, paper clothing dates back over a thousand years. “According to legend,” Fafalios and Zidianakis write, “in 988 a Buddhist monk” made a shirt from “the pages of old sutra.” This was known as kamiko, a technique in which clothes were made from “strong sheets of paper that [had] been softened and starched with vegetable juice.”  Shifu, a weaving method using strips of paper, was introduced in Japan in the sixteenth century. In 1907, a paper thread was developed in France, with contemporary reports describing it as “stout, unshrinkable, impervious to damp, non-inflammable and [costing] two-thirds less than cotton.”

The first paper dresses in the United States were actually marketing items. In 1966, the Scott Paper company released the “Paper Caper” dress to advertise its new brand of toilet paper, paper towels, and napkins. As historian Joseph E. Kapler Jr. writes , for $1.25 customers got a dress and “also received coupons for Scott’s [products].” Over half a million orders were placed. Yet, as Fafalios and Zidianakis point out, the dresses weren’t all paper: “their components included cotton, rayon, polyester and new-technology synthetic fibers in addition to cellulose.”

But these dresses did have one thing in common with paper—they were designed to be used just once and discarded. This was era-appropriate, explain Fafalios and Zidianakis. Younger generations in postwar America were getting used to single-use items, like cups, tablecloths, and diapers, and paper fashion reflected the desire for “affordable, fashionable and futuristic design.” And for the manufacturers, these items were cheap to make.

Others soon followed Scott’s lead and began producing paper dresses advertising everything from movies to alcohol. A few airlines made paper uniforms for their flight attendants. Presidential candidates who might not have agreed on much agreed on this: they needed paper dresses. Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, Eugene McCarthy, and Robert F. Kennedy each had paper dresses produced for the 1968 election. Andy Warhol, whose pop-art style influenced many of the dresses’ designs, got into the act, designing a paper dress for the singer Nico. In 1966, the Mars Manufacturing Company introduced a plain-white DIY dress that came with watercolors and a paintbrush.

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But, like the dresses, the trend didn’t last. Scott Paper stopped producing its own after six months, because the company “didn’t want to turn into dress manufacturers,” Kapler explains. And growing concerns about the environment meant that disposability declined as a selling point; the fad waned by 1968.

Although these dresses reflect their era in many ways—from design to disposability—Fafalios and Zidianakis write that they also reflect the culture of today: “the goal of bringing art and life closer together remains entirely contemporary.”

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READY TO TEAR: A History of Paper Fashion

By Fashion History Museum

Disposable paper dresses were a mad fad in the mid 1960s and it seemed like a great idea for the space age, after all, who is going to do laundry in space? However, the history of paper fashions goes back much further.

Bonnet trimmed with blue satin ribbons (1812/1814) Original Source: http://fashionhistorymuseum.com/

“Bonnet Board” Bonnet Trimmed with Satin Ribbons, English, c. 1812 ‘Bonnet board’ was a heavy linen paper with stamped designs used for making summer bonnets and hats when fine Italian straw hats became scarce because of the Napoleonic Wars.

Paper Corset (c. 1916) Fashion History Museum

Paper Corset, Germany, c. 1916 During World War I, blockades kept shipments of textiles from entering Germany. Paper cut into strips, twisted and woven into cloth were used to make a variety of clothing with great success.

Halloween Costume (late 1920s) Fashion History Museum

Halloween Costume, late 1920s From the late 1890s until the early 1960s, crepe paper was a popular and affordable material for making fancy dress costumes...

as long as it didn’t rain!

Advertisment for Paper Dress (1966) Fashion History Museum

In spring 1966, the Scott Paper Company created an offer for a printed paper dress. With a coupon from a Scott product and $1.25, anyone could order a dress by mail in either a bandanna or Op Art print.  Much to the company’s surprise, half a million orders came in.

Paper Dress (1966) by Mars of Asheville Co. Fashion History Museum

Paper Dress, Mars of Asheville Co., 1966 In the summer of 1966, Mars of Asheville, NC were the first to market paper clothes as a purely fashion enterprise.

Other companies followed, resulting in a paper shortage during 1966 and 1967.

Paper Pantsuit with Matching Mat (1966) by James Sterling Co. Fashion History Museum

Paper Pantsuit with Matching Hat, James Sterling Co., New York, 1966 Some companies experimented with more complicated clothing than A-line dresses, although these proved to be not very cost effective for resale.

Floral Print Spun Bonded Polyester Fibre Dress (1967) Fashion History Museum

Floral Print Dress made of Spun Bonded Polyester Fibre, 1967 With a paper shortage, other materials were substituted to sustain the disposable garment market: Rayon mesh (called Reemay), spun-bonded polyester, and plastic coated Tyvek were all used as alternatives.

Expo 67 Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion (1967) Fashion History Museum

Expo 67: Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion

Anticipating sales potential, the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry showcased the potential of paper in their pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, including clothes for men and women, shoes, bedspreads, chairs and lamps -- the possibilities were endless.

Artist-Painted Paper Dress (c. 1967) Fashion History Museum

Artist-Painted Paper Dress, American, c. 1967 With scissor snips, poster paints, crayons, or the new felt-tip markers, customizing paper garments allowed wearers to “do your own thing”.

Bob Dylan Photo-print Paper Dress (1967) by Poster Dresses Ltd. Fashion History Museum

Bob Dylan Photo-Print Paper Dress, Poster Dresses Ltd., London, England, 1967 The first series of six photo-print dresses by Poster Dresses included Bob Dylan, who wouldn’t give his permission for an American printing later that same year.

Robert Kennedy Presidential Campaign Paper Dress (1968) Fashion History Museum

Robert Kennedy Presidential Campaign Paper Dress, 1968 American presidential candidates, Nixon, Romney, Rockefeller, and Bobby Kennedy, all took advantage of the paper dress “billboard” for their campaigns.

Campbell’s “Souper” Dress (1967) Fashion History Museum

Campbell’s “Souper” Dress, American, 1967 In the days before T-shirt art, marketing executives took advantage of the visual merchandising potential of the paper dress.

Campbell’s re-appropriated Andy Warhol’s soup can labels to produce the “Souper Dress” in 1967.

Gold Paper Dress (1967) by Elisa Daggs Fashion History Museum

Gold Paper Dress, Elisa Daggs, New York, 1967 Trans World Airlines experimented with paper dresses, hiring New York fashion designer Elisa Daggs to create outfits for flight attendants.

Industrial Paper Clothing Fashion History Museum

Industrial Paper Fashion

The fad for paper clothing burned itself out quickly but that wasn’t the end of disposable clothing, which is used mostly in industrial settings today.

Highlights from the exhibition Ready to Tear: A History of Paper Fashion, a travelling exhibition created by Jonathan Walford in 2001 for the Musee Marcil in Montreal. The show travelled to 5 other venues across Canada between 2004 and 2008. The success of this travelling show was a catalyst for the creation of the Fashion History Museum All artifacts are from the collection of the Fashion History Museum.

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How to Make Simple Paper Dresses

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Simple Paper Dresses are so charming! Seeing this girl come home from summer-camp in her delightful bright blue paper dress with ribbons, I was instantly inspired to write to you all about paper dresses here at FineCraftGuild.com .

This simple paper dress is easy to do at a camp or kid party and all the girls can line up for a fashion parade in less than an hour.  The crepe paper is rolled out, wrapped around the girl and cut when she’s covered front and back. Then, it’s simply folded at the top, and taped together at the back. The crepe paper is so mouldable that it is simply pushed into shape by hand. Then, some ribbons were added at the back to cover up the tape, and one ribbon was put in her hair for splendour.

Paper Dress Making for a girl’s party, girl guide summer camp, school event or birthday party

A few rolls of crepe paper in inspiring colors, some ribbons, glitter glue , a bit or Scots tape, and voila. Done.  Crepe paper is so forgiving, mouldable and pliable, that you actually don’t really need much by way of tape or glue .  Also consider using a needle & thread and simply gather the paper ‘fabric’.

Albeit that to create more durable paper dresses or paper costumes that you can wear more than once, e.g. for a dress rehearsal and one or more theatre shows, any kind of tool offering extra strength such as glue, stitching or tape is recommended.  As well, create a design that allows you to easily get in and out of the dress…

Some practical tips: particularly for re-usable dresses, often a fabric base garment is used and the paper is stitched on. This would be best for say a school theater costume or Halloween costume, where the child would wear the dress quite a few times. Reinforce any paper sleeves with an extra layer of paper and allow for plenty of space. Crepe paper is usually about 20″ wide, and plan the design accordingly. For skirts (to hang well) ensure that the grain of the crepe runs vertically. For longer dresses on taller girls, you often need 2 paper widths; simply sew or tape them, then use the entire stretch of paper in your paper dress design.

However for paper dresses made as simple as the one shown here, all is simple: you don’t even need a pattern. All you need is good old fantasy! And, at a camp or birthday party, you’ll have plenty of that fantasy going around. So no trouble at all.

Having said this, it is best to prep and have a few dresses (almost) ready before your event, so that you’ll get  your group going faster.

A few demo dress designs will help the children (and adults around) to fill up the nooks and corners of the general idea with their own fantasy, and they can be happy with the (near instant) results.   When someone really can not put one together or rips her dress just before it’s going home time, this little princess can take a demo dress home instead and still be happy.

Tip: You don’t need the occasion of a party of a school play to make this craft worthwhile: making paper dresses is perfect for playing make-believe on a rainy summer afternoon.

Tomorrow we’ll talk about ….Fancy Paper Dresses !!

Meanwhile, here are free and low cost paper dress making resources to help you do your simple projects.

How to Make Simple Paper Dresses – Resources

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Click to download  3 FREE online paper dress making tutorial s by Geuzen.org, completed with templates for 3 different paper dresses: Renee , Femke and Riet .

When I came across this little sewing machine I realized it is a great toy for a young seamstress. I am however not sure if it is possible for a child to sew paper with it, as sewing with thicker, less pliable paper is more difficult than with thin fabric. 

But …  you have to start somewhere, and this machine might bring on the beginning of design greatness. Click the image for details.

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A brief history of a brief trend: paper dresses

Our clothing at Recollections is built to last, and we love hearing from customers about how our pieces last for so many history-inspired adventures. People appreciate quality and the “slow fashion” movement continues to thrive. In the 1960s, things were a little different. Paper dresses, meant to be worn an average of three times became a trend that was unstoppable for a handful of years. Like other fashions of the decade it wasn’t long-lasting, but for a short time took the Western world by storm. 

This is the brief history of a brief fashion: paper dresses

Paper clothing: before flower power

Japanese ancient origins.

Paper clothing existed before the fun and funky decade of the 1960s. In Japan, for instance, various pieces of clothing were made of sturdy paper for thousands of years. For the purposes of this post, we will look at the American and English use of paper clothing. If you’d like to read about the Japanese tradition start with this post: Kamiko , Washi and Takuhon-shi : Making paper clothing in Japan .

Bonnet board

Bonnets were all the rage in the early 19th century. They were often made of finely woven straw, but during the Napoleonic Wars, the material became scarce. A linen paper was invented, temporarily taking its place. It must have been very temporary as it was challenging to find much information on “bonnet board,” though The Fashion History Museum has the well-preserved example below. 

Paper corsets

During WWI a number of paper-derived clothing was produced, it does seem to have made much of an impact in America. Meg Andrews shares :

 ‘ During World War I woman were encouraged to be nationalistic minded consumers and not purchase foreign goods, particularly French goods. Indeed, corsets from Paris were described as` un-German and dangerous` they also suggested that French corsetry made German woman sick. It was unpatriotic to think of French fashion when one could be aiding the cause of war.   J.Salen (2008) West End Gazette November 1915 “…dresses and suits of paper have been sold in enormous quantities in Berlin, and they are warm and keep out the rain remarkably well.”

While paper corsets and bonnets may have enjoyed relative success, but did they lead to the paper clothing craze of the 1960s? 

Scott Paper Company: How it started

Disposable items began to take off in popularity in the 1950s. The Scott Paper Company was constantly innovating and trying to stay ahead of the onslaught of new products. Says Wikipedia: 

“In the late 1950s, manufacturers such as the Scott Paper Company and Kimberly-Stevens developed bonded fabrics made from plant cellulose as a cheap and disposable alternative to traditional woven textiles in laboratory and healthcare environments. However, they resisted describing these non-woven materials as paper, as they felt it suggested weakness and fragility. Scott’s rayon and cellulose bonded fabric was called Duraweave, and would go on to be the material for the first successful paper dresses in 1966, launching the late Sixties craze for mass-produced paper fashion.” 

To promote their new line of disposable paper kitchen items in 1966 the company came up with a most-peculiar scheme: send in a Scott Paper coupon along with $1.25 and try out a dress also made of paper. The 1960s were a prime time for such experimental ideas in fashion and the campaign was an overwhelming success that would be copied by companies around the country. Half a million orders poured in. 

The original paper dresses were available in a bandana print and an “Op-art” print. Which do you prefer? 

While creative, the dresses were not made of the same paper used to make Scott Paper’s napkins and paper towels. As Smithsonian reports , they were more durable, made of “cotton, rayon, polyester and new-technology synthetic fibers in addition to cellulose.” 

By the end of 1966, the manufacturing plant Mars out of Asheville would begin producing paper dresses for non-advertising purposes. Funnily enough, Scott Paper decided to pull the plug on their advertising campaign, explaining that it did not want to turn into a dress company. 

The following are some of my favorite moments inside of this short-lived craze

Make your own

After Mars launched their paper dresses in 1966 they released a line of white options with the intention of the wearer creating a one-of-a-kind minidress. The dress was even sold with a small watercolor set. Mars engaged Andy Warhol as a spokesperson of sorts for the launch party and his creations are now at the Brooklyn Museum. 

Warhol used one of my favorite musicians, Nico, as his model while he painted two paper dresses. In one he screenprinted “fragile” on the dress, signing it “Dali.” This fun live art show is shown below. 

He painted a large banana on the other dress. The event and Warhol’s creations must have helped to draw more attention to this disposable dress fad.

Flowering dress

The best thing that I found reference to while researching paper clothing was a dress by the Paraphernalia boutique in New York. Apparently, the paper used to construct the dresses was made with flower seeds embedded. When applied with a light blot, small blossoms would grow on the outside of the dress. Reads Vintage Connection : 

“But without a doubt, the weirdest paper dress–by one of the wackiest dress manufacturers of the 1960s–was meant to grow herbs. “It was amazing,” Paraphernalia’s founder admits. “There were little seeds planted in a kind of blotter paper, very soft–kind of like a Handi-Wipe. It was like those Magic Rocks you put in water. When you watered the dress, it grew these strange little blossoms.”

Alas, despite scouring the internet I have not been able to locate any photos of said blooming dress. I will add it to my blog wish list! 

Advertising 

In a move we don’t see as much today, companies saw the success of the Scott Paper campaign and had absolutely no probably following suit. I came across so many similar campaigns that I had to stop collecting them in order to finish this post in a timely fashion. Below are my favorites. 

Formal wear

The 1960s were such an often-hilarious time for fashion. Some were so confident that paper clothing was “here to stay” that formal wear was soon available in the flimsy fabric. I read that wedding gowns even existed, though that was also something I failed to locate. 

What types of events do you think women would have worn these fancy paper dresses to? 

Gone, but not forgotten 

Alas, all not-so-good things must come to an end. While fun to look at, in reality, paper dresses turned out to be less than comfortable. Says Collector’s Weekly:

“While most paper dresses were actually priced very low, none lasted long enough to save customers much money. Beyond cost, paper dresses faced several other issues preventing them from becoming more than a novelty. “Women who remember wearing paper dresses have told me they were stiff and uncomfortable and scratchy,” Walford says. “They also tended to catch the wind, so if you sat down, your dress might billow out. And if you wore one to an office party, like at Christmas, you had every guy intentionally spilling drinks on your paper. So they went out of fashion for a few different reasons, but durability wasn’t really the problem.”

So, let me know. Paper dresses: yay or nay?

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Vintage Spotlight: Paper Dresses

The 1960s frocks fascinated fashion-minded young ladies.

The ’60s produced beehive hair dos and surf rock and the decade also was when the paper dress had its heyday: a short-lived trend that offered avant garde fashion to the masses at a fraction of the price of even the cheapest of fabric dresses. These ingenious, disposable dresses would become one of the most iconic fashion moments of the era, despite the fact that not too many have survived (owing to the delicate nature of these fragile frocks).

Paper Mania

The trend got started in 1966 when the Scott Paper Company created a series of paper dresses to promote their new line of paper products featuring bright colors. The dresses came in two patterns, a red bandana paisley and a black and white optical illusion print. The original paper dresses were called “Paper Capers” and came with a note about how to wear them, “Your Paper Caper is an all-paper dress and intended for one time wear only. It is flame resistant, but washing, dry cleaning, or soaking will make the dress dangerously flammable when dry.”

Customers could send in 2 proofs of purchase and $1.25 and receive a paper dress in the mail. For comparison cotton shift dresses from the spring/summer Sears catalog cost between $5.00 and $9.00 each. And the Sears dresses didn’t come in nearly as far-out of designs as the Scott ones did!

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The dress was designed by the wife of a Scott engineer to showcase their new cellulose fabric called Duraweave, which she did with a simple, sleeveless, A-line dress. These dresses were made from cellulose and then treated to resist fire and other elements. Other companies had recently also come up with their own disposable “paper” fabrics for use in hospitals, nuclear facilities, and for medical products so the stage was set for a variety of paper dresses to be made following the Scott dresses.

Paper Dresses of all Kinds

By the end of 1966 half a million Scott dresses had been ordered and soon other companies began to cash in on the success with their own paper dresses. The new-fangled concept of disposable, flame-retardant clothing appealed to a certain space-age sensibility, as well as being an inexpensive novelty.

Many companies created paper dresses for promotional purposes, like Green Giant, the Yellow Pages phonebook, and many other brands.

The most famous of all the paper dresses was Souper Dress with an all-over design of Andy Warhols’s famous Campbell’s soup designs. According to the label for this famed dress it was made of 20% cotton and while it couldn’t be washed, it could be pressed with an iron .

Other paper dresses were sold blank along with a set of watercolor paints so that the wearer could truly wear a one-of-a-kind paper dress showcasing their (or their friends’) art skills.

By the time Richard Nixon ran for president a second time in 1968 even his campaign got in on the action by printing paper dresses with Nixon’s campaign logo all over it . Other incarnations of the idea were metallic paper dresses (more like chic versions of foil emergency blankets) and even a paper sari designed for Air India.

The short-lived fad was over by 1970, leaving paper dresses among the many discarded fashions of the decade.

Paper Dress Values Today

Some paper dresses can still be found in their unused state as deadstock for as little as $10 or $20 . Many dresses sat unused once their owners had worn one and felt how scratchy they could be. They also wrinkled easily and could be stiff to to wear or sit down in. For this reason many of the worn paper dresses are stained, have wrinkles, are torn, or are missing their printed designs in places.

More iconic or rare paper dresses can sell for much more money, such as the ultimate in paper dresses, the Souper Dress. A used Souper Dress sold in late 2020 for $1,200 . However, pristine versions of this dress currently have asking prices up to $5,500 .

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Make Paper Dresses using origami techniques is a great way to make something beautiful and unique. Whether you’re looking for an art project or a special dress for a special occasion, this tutorial will show you how to make an origami dress that is both easy and beautiful. This paper cloth-making tutorial will provide step-by-step instructions on how to create your very own paper dress with minimal effort.

Making a paper dress, also known as an origami dress, can be a fun and creative project. However, it can be quite challenging to create a full-sized, wearable dress using only paper. Instead, you might consider making a smaller-scale model of a dress or creating a decorative paper cloth.

Here’s one possible method for creating a decorative paper cloth in the shape of a dress:

• Gather materials: You will need several sheets of large, thin paper, such as tissue paper or crepe paper. You will also need scissors, glue, and any additional embellishments you want to add to your dress, such as ribbon or beads.
• Cut out the dress shape: Fold one sheet of paper in half and use scissors to cut out a basic dress shape. This can be a simple A-line shape or a more complex, fitted shape. Unfold the paper to reveal your dress shape. Repeat this step with additional sheets of paper until you have the desired quantity of paper dress shapes.
• Layer the dress: Begin layering your paper dress shapes on top of each other, securing each layer with glue as you go. Try to alternate the direction of the folds in each layer to add texture and depth to the dress.
• Add embellishments: Once you have a desired number of layers, use glue to add any additional embellishments, such as ribbon or beads, to the dress. You can also add details such as a sash, or a collar for the dress.
• Finish the dress: Once all the layers and embellishments are in place, let the glue dry completely. When the glue is dry, you have a beautiful paper cloth in the shape of a dress.

Keep in mind that creating a full-sized, wearable dress using this method would be challenging and it would be better to create a decorative piece rather than something you can wear. Also, you can use different color papers and add your own personal touch to make it more beautiful.

Make Paper Dress

Do y Have you ever wanted to make a beautiful paper dress? With this tutorial, you can do just that! This article will show you how to easily create an origami dress with paper cloth. You’ll be able to make a stunning paper garment that looks almost like fabric. You don’t need any special skills or tools – all you need is some colorful paper and a bit of patience. After reading through this tutorial, you’ll be creating your own unique paper dresses in no time!

Do you want to learn how to make a paper dress that’s both easy and beautiful? Origami dress-making is the perfect way to create a unique and amazing garment. Not only is it a creative and fun activity, but it can also be used as an educational tool for teaching children the basics of sewing. In this tutorial, we will show you how to make an origami dress with simple materials you likely already have at home.

The first step in creating your paper dress is gathering all of your supplies. You’ll need some colorful, lightweight paper like tissue or scrapbooking paper for the exterior of the dress; heavier-weighted cardstock or craft foam sheets for added structure; scissors; glue sticks; and optionally, some decorative items such as ribbons, sequins, or other embellishments.

Tools Needed: Scissors, Glue

Making a paper dress is an easy and beautiful way to create something unique. All you need is some paper, scissors, and glue. With this tutorial on how to make a paper dress, you will be able to create a beautiful origami dress in no time!

This tutorial is suitable for any skill level, from beginner to advanced. All that’s required are basic supplies such as scissors and glue. The instructions included are simple enough for anyone to follow and understand. With these tools at your disposal, you will be able to craft your very own paper dress with ease! Using the folding techniques taught in this tutorial, you can create a beautiful and stylish design that could even rival those of professional tailors!

Step 1: Create a Pattern

Learning how to make an origami dress is easier than it seems. To create a beautiful paper cloth design with paper dress origami, the first step is to create a pattern. A pattern helps the crafter determine what pieces of paper need to be cut in order to assemble the dress correctly. When making a paper dress, it is important to ensure that all pieces are evenly sized and symmetrical before gluing or taping them together.

The best way to create a pattern is by drawing out the desired shape on graph paper or tracing paper and then cutting along those lines. Once you’ve created your template, use it as a guide for cutting out other shapes and sizes when creating different parts of your origami look. Creating patterns gives crafters more control over their projects and ensures that each piece fits perfectly together in the end.

Step 2: Cut and Assemble

Making a beautiful origami dress out of paper is a creative and fun way to show your style. Step 2 in the process of creating this gorgeous garment is to cut and assemble the paper pieces.

Using any kind of scissors, cut all the necessary rectangles, squares, and circles needed for the design of your dress. Depending on how intricate you want it to be, you can add extra shapes or patterns as desired. Take into account that each piece should fit within one another when they are folded over. Once all of your pieces are cut, they need to be organized so that their assembly will be simpler.

With some patience and creativity, it won’t take long until you have all the pieces ready for assembling them together.

Step 3: Attach Details

Making a paper dress origami is an easy and fun way to create a beautiful piece of cloth. This tutorial will show you how to make one in four simple steps. Step 3 focuses on attaching the details that will make your paper dress stand out.

This step requires some artistic creativity, so have fun with it! Begin by cutting out colored paper pieces in various shapes and sizes, such as flowers and circles. You can also use pre-cut shapes like stars or hearts – any type of shape will do! Use glue to attach these shapes to the body of your dress outline, making sure they are evenly distributed throughout the design. If you’re feeling extra creative, try adding ribbons or lace along the bottom edge of your dress for an extra touch of elegance.

Step 4: Add Finishing Touches

Making paper dresses is a fun and creative way to express your fashion sense. But after creating the basic shape, it’s time to add some final touches that will make your dress stand out. Step 4: Add Finishing Touches is all about making sure your paper dress looks its best and truly reflects your personal style.

There are several options for adding extra flair to this origami project. Colored markers can be used to draw patterns or designs on the fabric of the dress, while ribbons and buttons can be used as embellishments. If you feel like really going all out, try using glitter glue or decorative tape to create a unique look! Through these finishing touches, you’re able to give this origami craft an individualized touch that makes it truly special.

Conclusion:

The conclusion to this tutorial on how to make a beautiful paper cloth is simple: with just a few basic materials and some patience, you can have your very own origami dress. If you followed the steps provided in this article, then you should have no trouble creating a stunning piece of art that will be sure to impress.

The best part about making your own paper dress is that it’s easy enough for beginners while also offering an outlet for more experienced crafters to get creative. With the help of this tutorial, you should now be able not only to create beautiful paper clothes but also to experiment with other forms of origami crafts as well.

Have fun using your new-found skills and enjoy wearing your very own unique handmade creation!

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Though her name is automatically associated with them now, de Borchgrave has not always made paper dresses. She started out as a student at the Academy of Drawing and Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Arts of Brussels , specializing in painting and drawing. These skills are still very much part of de Borchgrave’s work as she paints minute and intricate patterns on her paper creations.

The idea of creating clothes out of paper came to de Borchgrave during a 1994 trip to New York City and its Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her visit of the Yves Saint-Laurent retrospective at the MoMA inspired her to tell the story of fashion design. Partnering up with Rita Brown, a Canadian costume-maker, she created the history lesson called Papier à la Mode .

What makes paper precious to de Borchgrave is its simplicity. In line with the tradition of Arte Povera, an art form which seeks to create beauty using everyday objects, she turns a household item as common as paper into admired artworks. Though she has now become reknown in the world of paper design and Belgian art, this admiration grew over many long years of hard work.

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Isabelle de Borchgrave started out in the ’70s in a studio under the rooftops of the Place du Sablon, Brussels . There, she created textile patterns for fabric producers such as Pierre Frey and Designers Guild. When she started working with paper, the fashion world, which had gotten to know her thanks to her textile designs, was baffled and impressed. Riding on this element of surprise, de Borchgrave became famous for inventing paper design. Today, she lives and works in a radiantly white loft-like space at 73 Chaussée de Vleurgat near the bustle of Place Flagey.

Movement and noise feed her creative energy. Indeed, she does not work alone: she is helped by a team of young fashion designers and artists. Together, they have produced hundreds of dresses currently exposed in Versailles, Saint-Petersburg, Turin, Phoenix and, of course, Brussels. According to the artist, more than a million and a half people have already seen her works.

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Over time, Isabelle de Borchgrave has widened her scope. Still working with paper, she has also started making interior decoration pieces out of fabric and bronze. She designs wrought-iron chairs, bronze tables, fabric cushions and ceramic dishes. This interest for product design has extended beyond the walls of the artist’s studio.

In the past few years, Isabelle de Borchgrave has also collaborated with corporate giants such as Target, Villeroy & Boch, Caspari and Hermès. For the first three, she made collections of dining room accessories such as napkins, plates and cups. More recently, she has worked with Hermès for which she designed the 2015 Christmas window display in the rue de Sèvres in Paris . Needless to say, Isabelle de Borchgrave will undoubtedly keep leaving her mark in Belgium and the broader world of art.

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At Fratelli Magro, we specialize in the production of customized and exclusive packaging , ideal for wrapping products in the wine, confectionery, food, and fashion industries. However, our expertise goes beyond just that. Ten years ago, we decided to put all our creativity and skill to the test with a bold experiment: creating a dress entirely out of paper . This project wasn’t just about producing wearable clothing but rather about demonstrating how paper could be manipulated and transformed to create something unique.

This year, we wanted to replicate this challenge, using a lighter and more malleable red tissue paper than the paper used in the past, and crafting a total of 6 dresses with the most unique and original patterns .

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Cuet ug 2024 live updates: over 13.4 lakh candidates registered for the common entrance test for admission to undergraduate courses in 261 central, state, deemed, and private universities. admit cards available at the official website -- exams.nta.ac.in/cuet-ug/..

NTA CUET 2024 Exam Live Updates: The National Testing Agency (NTA) started the examination for the Common University Entrance Test, Undergraduate (CUET UG) 2024 on May 15. With no normalisation, this year’s CUET examination will be completed in just seven days. Additionally, all the exams will be held in a single shift. The NTA has cancelled the exams set to be held for the candidates opting Delhi centre . The exams for those candidates will be held on May 29.

This year’s, CUET UG is in hybrid mode with 15 subjects in pen and paper mode and 48 subjects in computer based-mode. Over 13.4 lakh candidates registered for the common entrance test for admission to undergraduate courses in 261 central, state, deemed, and private universities, the National Testing Agency (NTA) said.

Candidates have to remember that they have to bring a hard copy of their admit card along with their passport-size picture that was used in the CUET UG application form. Students who are yet to download their admit cards can do so from the official website — exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-UG/.

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Over 75% attendance recorded on first day (May 15)

CUET UG 2024 was conducted for Chemistry, Biology, English and General Tests all over India except 258 centres in Delhi. A total of 2157 exam centres were used on the first day of the exam.

In total, 643752 candidates appeared for Chemistry exam in 1640 centres, 363067 candidates in 1368 centres for Biology, 862209 candidates in 2077 centres for English, and 721986 candidates in 1892 centres appeared for General Studies.

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CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: CUET in OMR mode?

This year’s, CUET UG is in hybrid mode with 15 subjects in pen and paper mode and 48 subjects in computer based-mode. 

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Candidates to download fresh admit card for second day of CUET UG

The candidates who are scheduled to appear for the CUET (UG) – 2024 examination in Delhi on 16, 17, and 18 May 2024, must download a revised Admit Card reflecting the new examination center from the official website of the CUET (UG) – 2024 i.e. https://t.co/TCsdcuX7It pic.twitter.com/0igHOCr1EY — National Testing Agency (@NTA_Exams) May 15, 2024

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Last-minute changes

Some parents of CUET UG 2024 aspirants have also alleged that there have been last minute changes in the exam centre and they are informed in the eleventh hour. An aspirant whose centre was first announced in Delhi was later changed to Faridabad. The student came to know about the Faridabad centre on May 14.

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Postponement

Those affected by the postponement in CUET UG across Delhi centres will be able to take their exams on May 29.

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Chemistry exam analysis

Organic Chemistry: The inquiries in this section were generally uncomplicated and addressed fundamental principles such as the Friedel-Crafts reaction, various solution types, and organic reactions.

Physical Chemistry: Queries ranged from straightforward to moderately challenging, encompassing fundamental concepts like stoichiometry, electrochemistry, osmotic pressure, vapour pressure, reaction kinetics, electrolysis, and reaction order.

Inorganic Chemistry: Questions spanned from straightforward to moderately challenging, delving into electrophilic aromatic substitution, the Etard reaction, complexes of transition metals, ionization enthalpy, oxidation states, and properties specific to lanthanides and actinides.

Topics also included sigma bonds within molecules like P4O10.

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CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Students upset with officials for not following NTA instructions

????? ?? ??? ?? ?? ???? ?? ????? ???? ????? ???? ??? #CUET Exam centre @raghavglobalschool #NOIDA ??? Please ? Read point no -9 If religion/ custom require you to wear specific attire , please visit centre early Seriously ? that this was done today @UPGovt @myogiadityanath pic.twitter.com/B0ElktDXMy — Nisha Rai Advocate (@nisharai_ggc) May 15, 2024

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Students upset with NTA

@NTA_Exams one of your exam CUET which is going to happen from 15th to later on is getting so much stressed for everyone. Your website was crashed as well as not working yesterday due to which we have not got the exam centre detail, admit card. I had 3 subjects exams of which one… pic.twitter.com/JSDApmqk3w — Digi Dominion Dev (@DigiDominionDev) May 15, 2024

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Tomorrow's schedule

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Exam centre mismanagement

CUET UG exam ?? ????? ?????? ?? ????? ????? ??? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ??? ???? ?? ??? ??? ?? ????? ?????? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ??? ????? ??? ?????? ????? ???? ??????? ?? ??? ??? ?? ???? ????? ???????? ??? ?? ??? ??? ?? ?????? ?? ???? ?????? ??? @CUETInfo @cuet_exam @cuetexams — Bhupinder Singh Rawat (@Bhupind12282600) May 15, 2024

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The National Testing Agency (NTA) has postponed its CUET UG 2024 in an exam centre based in Faridabad. The name of the centre is ‘Faridabad Model School’ in Sector 31. Students who received their examination centre in the model school in the city reached the venue only to know that NTA has postponed the CUET UG exam there also.

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CUET Exam Live Updates: Here's what NTA says about postponing exams in the Faridabad centre

'This has only happened for the students who had Delhi as the first choice of exam centre, but were allotted Faridabad as the exam centre. These students will be given a chance on May 29 now, along with other Delhi candidates. 

The students who selected Faridabad and have been allotted Faridabad did not face any problem. The exam is being conducted normally, without any issues in the rest of the country too,' a senior official from NTA told indianexpress.com.

CUET UG Live Updates: Exams in Faridabad cancelled, security says 'no exam'

Exams in one Faridabad CUET UG 2024 centre, Faridabad Model School, has been cancelled for today. The revised CUET UG exam date will be intimated to the candidates later, a posture outside the exam centre read. The security personnel there said that there would be no exam today.

CUET UG Exam 2024 Live Updates: NTA cancels exam in one Faridabad centre

The National Testing Agency (NTA) which said that the exams in Faridabad, Gurugram, Noida and Ghaziabad would be held as per the schedule, has now postponed the exam in Faridabad centre as well.

NTA CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: 'Such a mess'

A social media post said: “#CUET such a mess! Delhi going to polls was known 2 months ago, and how is it that the body is unaware of it! Poor children who have to suffer all the changes, and that too at last minute! Dharmendra Pradhan utter confusion everywhere, courtesy #nep Hope you are aware!!”

#CUET such a mess! @NTA_Exams Delhi going to polls was known 2 months ago, and how is it that the body is unaware of it! Poor children who have to suffer all the changes, and that too at last minute! @dpradhanbjp utter confusion every where, courtesy #nep Hope you are aware!! — Malini Menon (@catchmalini) May 15, 2024

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: NTA asks candidates to bring already downloaded admit card

Candidates have been complaining since last evening saying that they are unable to download CUET admit card 2024 from the official website – exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-UG/. In a late-night reply, the NTA asked candidates to carry the already downloaded admit card to the exam centre. 

CUET Exam Live Updates: When will NTA announce new exam centres for those cancelled across Delhi centres?

The admit card downloaded on May 14 said that the new exam date will be intimated by 7 pm today (May 15).

CUET UG Live Updates: When will exams for those in Delhi centres be held?

Cuet ug exam 2024 live updates: some say 'waste of money'.

NTA, ?? CUET ?????? ?? ???? ??? ????, ?????? ??? ?? ?? ???? postponed ?? ????, ????? ?? ??? ?? ?? ???? ??, ????? ??? ???? ??, ???? waste money waste, NEET ?? ???? ??? ?? ??? ??, ????? ????? ?? ?? ????? ??, NEET ?? ???, ????? NTA ???? ??? ??? ??? ??? #cuetug2024 — Moaz Ashraf (???? ????) (@mdmoazashraf) May 15, 2024

NTA CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Candidates troubled due to exam cancellation

Candidates from centres across Delhi are troubled amid the cancellation of exam in Delhi centres. 

Exam ke 12 ghante pehle raat ke 10 baje exam kaun postpone krta hai??? And admit card bhi download nahi ho raha hai. This is absolutely ridiculous playing with children's health. School ka unit test nahi hai bhai cuet hai? — ish (@charassiaaa) May 14, 2024

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: NTA instructions for candidates

- The candidate must reach the CUET UG exam centre at the time indicated against the reporting or entry time at the centre in the admit card

- No candidate will be permitted to enter the centre after the gate closing time

- No candidate will be allowed to leave the examination room before the end of the examination.

- On completion of the examination, candidates are asked to wait for instructions from invigilator and do not get up from their seat until advised. The candidates will be permitted to move out one at a time only.

- All candidates are required to download and carefully read the Instructions given with the CUET UG admit card and strictly adhere to them.

- Candidates are advised to verify the location of the examination venue, a day in advance so that they do not face any problem on the day of examination.

- If religion/customs require you to wear specific attire, please visit the Centre early for thorough checking.

- No candidate would be allowed to enter the examination centre, without admit card, valid ID proof, and proper frisking

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: No bio-breaks allowed

The NTA will not allow the candidates to take any bio-breaks in CUET UG 2024, the CUET UG hall ticket said.

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: NTA website not working

??? ????? ??? 1 ???? ??? ?? ??? ?? ???? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ?? ???? NTA ?? ??????? ????? ??? ????? ?? ???? ?? ??? ??, ????? ???? ?? ?? ?????? ?? ?? ?? ??? ???? ????? ??? ?? ?? 14 ????? ??? ?? ????? ???? ?? ??? ???? ??????? ?? ???? ???.. #NTA #cuetug2024 #cuet pic.twitter.com/1ta36DvWm4 — Adarsh Yadav (@adarsh_128) May 14, 2024

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: CUET UG centre details

Cuet ug 2024 live updates: what exams will be conducted today.

NTA however will be conducting CUET UG 2024 for all the remaining centres across India and abroad including those in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad for chemistry -306, biology - 304, English - 101 and general test - 501.

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Why did NTA postpone CUET UG in Delhi alone?

The NTA claims that the reason behind this postponement is manpower issues caused due to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. "CUET UG is held at a large scale and we had selected several exam centres and invigilators are deployed for this process. However, we were facing issues in getting appropriate amount of invigilators in Delhi exam centres for the May 15 exam due to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. So, NTA has decided to conduct the May 15 exam after elections, i.e. May 29," an NTA official told indianexpress.com.

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Documents to carry

Hard copy of the admit card

- One passport size photograph (same as uploaded on the application)

- Any one authorised photo ID like school identification card, PAN, Aadhaar card, voter ID

- PwBD certificate (if applicable)

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: Dress code

- Light clothes with long sleeves are not permitted. However, in case, candidates come in cultural, customary dress at the examination centre, they should report at least an hour before the last reporting time.

- Slippers, and sandals with low heels are permitted. Shoes are not permitted.

- In case of any deviation required due to unavoidable (medical, etc.) circumstances, specific approval of NTA must be taken before the admit cards are issued.

CUET UG 2024 Live Updates: What is the official website to download admit card?

Candidates can download their CUET UG 2024 admit cards from the official website – exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-UG/.

CUET UG Exam 2024 Live Updates: Candidates asked to take already downloaded admit card

NTA in a social media post last night said that in case candidates face issues in downloading the latest CUET UG 2024 admit card from the web portal, they should reach the examination centre with the admit card already downloaded by them and appear in the examination.

CUET UG 2024 Examination In case a candidate faces issues in downloading the latest Admit Card from the web portal, he/she should reach the Examination Centre with the Admit Card already downloaded by him/her and appear in the Examination. — National Testing Agency (@NTA_Exams) May 14, 2024

CUET UG Exam 2024 Live Updates: NTA begins exam today

The National Testing Agency will start the CUET UG 2024 exams today. The exams, however, are cancelled for the candidates who have opted Delhi centres . CUET UG scheduled on May 15 wilI be held as per earlier communicated schedule in all other cities across the country including Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, and Noida and abroad. Further examinations scheduled on other dates -- May 16, 17 and 18 at all centers including those in Delhi will be held as scheduled, NTA said in a statement released last night.

CUET UG 2024: CUET UG will be conducted from May 15 to May 24 for about 13.48 lakh candidates. While the exams from May 15 to 18 will be held in offline pen and paper mode, the exams on May 21, 22 and 24 will be held in computer-based mode.

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