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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 335454, member: 78"]Hi,</p><p> reminds me of the wedding gown we found in a used clothing store. It was $17.99.</p><p>We were going to a Halloween costume party. The gown was a very heavy silk from the 1920s. After the party a friend who was very high up in the clothing business asked if he could have the gown. He was getting married and his future wife really liked the gown. She wanted to get married in it!!!!! So there we were at the wedding and all of the VIPs were discussing who designed her wedding gown. People there were Bill Blass, Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang etc. They would have died to find out the source of the wedding gown was a second hand store in Chinatown. I could hardly stand the gossip about the dress. They were all in agreement in it being a very wonderful silk but the thinking was a designer in Milan or Paris just did the dress. If they only knew the history behind the dress.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 335454, member: 78"]Hi, reminds me of the wedding gown we found in a used clothing store. It was $17.99. We were going to a Halloween costume party. The gown was a very heavy silk from the 1920s. After the party a friend who was very high up in the clothing business asked if he could have the gown. He was getting married and his future wife really liked the gown. She wanted to get married in it!!!!! So there we were at the wedding and all of the VIPs were discussing who designed her wedding gown. People there were Bill Blass, Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang etc. They would have died to find out the source of the wedding gown was a second hand store in Chinatown. I could hardly stand the gossip about the dress. They were all in agreement in it being a very wonderful silk but the thinking was a designer in Milan or Paris just did the dress. If they only knew the history behind the dress.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: greg[/QUOTE]
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