This picture is in such good condition. So clear and unfaded. Yes, I am obsessed with old photos… that’s part of why I’m wasting my evening on this site, which I’ve just discovered, today.
They are all beautiful. You know, this was the fashion at that time, but provides for wonderful memories (and lots of laughs) now, just as wedding pictures being taken this year will provide lots of memories and howls of laughter 30 years from now!
Since she couldn’t find two more bridesmaids who wanted to be publicly seen wearing that pattern, the bride decided to use the remaining cloth for new drapes instead of wasting it altogether!
As bridesmaid dresses go, these are actually pretty good. No butt bows, no overly shiny fabric, decent colors, dresses fit the women wearing them. It’s too bad they had to pose in front of that curtain!
The bridesmaid on the far right actually looks like she could pull off the vintage hipster look in that dress today……if she could make a break for it and get away from her sister wives….
They look suspiciously like the bridesmaid dresses in the first wedding I was ever in. I received a length of fabric and some buttons in the mail, along with a pattern number. Good thing I knew how to sew!
The late Erma Bombeck told a story of accidently standing too close one evening at a party to a sliding glass door that had curtains the same print as her evening dress. She remarked she looked like a disembodied head floating in the room. This is very close. (AND a very good laugh in the same moment).
Maybe it’s just me but I kinda miss bridesmaid’s dresses with sleeves and collars. Pair those dresses with some big 80′s hair and I could die a happy man. Just sayin…
The least they could do is take the curtains off and drape it on the poor flower girl and secure it with safety pins and scotch tape so she wouldn’t feel so left out. What good is it hanging on a wall?
The timid yet fascinating creature, the Flower-Speckled Bridesmaid, has learned to adapt to its surrounding environments through camouflage and keeping in packs of three or four, while the more solitary and showy Bride and Flowergirl can but attempt to hide behind small flowers, unaware of the stalking hunter in their midst….
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This picture is in such good condition. So clear and unfaded. Yes, I am obsessed with old photos… that’s part of why I’m wasting my evening on this site, which I’ve just discovered, today.
Garden State
Reminds me of that scene in The Sound of Music where she made the curtains into a dress
Weren’t clothes made out of curtains for the kids in The Sound of Music?
YES! The curtains were in Maria’s room… bahhhaaaaa that was my first thought!
Wow the 2nd one from the left is soooooooo Beautiful !
They are all beautiful. You know, this was the fashion at that time, but provides for wonderful memories (and lots of laughs) now, just as wedding pictures being taken this year will provide lots of memories and howls of laughter 30 years from now!
when window shopping goes too far
Since she couldn’t find two more bridesmaids who wanted to be publicly seen wearing that pattern, the bride decided to use the remaining cloth for new drapes instead of wasting it altogether!
“I Saw It In the Window and Just Had to Have It”
Good one, Lisa!
If they just left the window alone, this really wouldn’t have been that awkward. Its the early seventies wedding wear at its finest…
Good thing this pic was taken indoors instead of the garden….What a Cluster that would of been….Like finding Waldo !!!
PHEW! Thank God the Bride could wear white or you would’ve NEVER been able to find her in that maze of Foliage!! :O)
Well, if they need a last minute vest for the ring bearer, I know where to get some fabric…
Good one Anne
This reminds me of The Sound of Music when she makes play clothes for the kids out of the curtains on the windows. Boy was the dad mad!
And they come with matching pillows!
I guess the carpet really does match the drapes.
O.K. ladies…..On the count of 3……1….2…3…..say….Flowers !!!
And the one on the right really does look like the girl from Twilight…
OMG! At first glance I thought the curtains were the exact same fabric as the dresses! Strange times….
Yo people — It’s “Gone With the Wind,” not “The Sound of Music.” Scarlett O’Hara, not Maria, wore the dress made from her mother’s curtains.
Yes, but in “The Sound of Music” Maria made play clothes for her charges with old drapes. So it is both. Relax.
It’s both. Scarlett’s green dress was made of curtains, and Maria made play clothes for the children from the drapes hanging in her room.
And don’t forget the great Carol Burnett, who wore curtains, complete with the rod (in a spoof of GWTW).
I love weddings.
Who designed the dresses? Scarlet O’Hara?
and her favorite movie and inspiration was, “The Sound of Music”
is that Kristen Stewart on the far right?
As bridesmaid dresses go, these are actually pretty good. No butt bows, no overly shiny fabric, decent colors, dresses fit the women wearing them. It’s too bad they had to pose in front of that curtain!
Which came first…the dress or the curtains???
My mother was in a bridal party in 1971 and she wore almost the same dress. It looked like someone raided the fabric store
I love the flower girl,,,
flowers in her hair,,,,
flowers everywhere,,,,,
Which came first, the dresses or the drapes?
this looks like it was shot in the church basement. painted cement floor, waaaaay too high window. my golly…i cant stop but I must!!
First time i’ve seen the girl from Twilight, far right, smile without a hint of angst.
THATS HILARIOUS!! Like the sound of Music
The bridesmaid on the far right actually looks like she could pull off the vintage hipster look in that dress today……if she could make a break for it and get away from her sister wives….
HA HA HA !
For the win! And by the way, OOWWWW my eyes!!!
They look suspiciously like the bridesmaid dresses in the first wedding I was ever in. I received a length of fabric and some buttons in the mail, along with a pattern number. Good thing I knew how to sew!
OMG! My thought was “and they were all made with Butterick pattern number 75!!
1972
Do the carpets match the drapes?
I was waiting for someone to chime in with this one….
So, I whent back & loked at the picture…it’s a hard wood floor after!
“One day all of this will be yours”
“What, the curtains?”
No, not the curtains… the huge tracts of land.
What inspiring home decor! A badly draped curtain against a wildly BEIGE wall. Wheee-hoo!
The late Erma Bombeck told a story of accidently standing too close one evening at a party to a sliding glass door that had curtains the same print as her evening dress. She remarked she looked like a disembodied head floating in the room. This is very close. (AND a very good laugh in the same moment).
Isn’t having a flower girl in the picture going a bit too far…
The irony, of course, being that the flower girl herself is not dressed in flowers!
“Oh, Miss Scarlett, not the draperies again”.
Maybe it’s just me but I kinda miss bridesmaid’s dresses with sleeves and collars. Pair those dresses with some big 80′s hair and I could die a happy man. Just sayin…
Oh Rhett, you finally decided to marry me. Lets live in Tara.
The least they could do is take the curtains off and drape it on the poor flower girl and secure it with safety pins and scotch tape so she wouldn’t feel so left out. What good is it hanging on a wall?
Is anyone else reminded of the Sound of Music?
I thought I was the only one!
“I saw it in the window and I just couldn’t take my eyes off it”.
EXACTLY what I was thinkin’!!
WIN!
This idea was borrowed from the Sound of Music
I think I worked out who the groom is:
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2010/08/05/wall-to-wall/
LOL u are so right!!!
What a brilliant observation! They were a match from the start!
The timid yet fascinating creature, the Flower-Speckled Bridesmaid, has learned to adapt to its surrounding environments through camouflage and keeping in packs of three or four, while the more solitary and showy Bride and Flowergirl can but attempt to hide behind small flowers, unaware of the stalking hunter in their midst….
Haha….Yes!
Nice Dresses…..Who shot the couch ???
must be related to Herb Tarlec from WKRP in Cincinnati.
The fabric drapes very nicely
2 thumbs up!!
FTW!