Video: Paper dress from the telephone directory
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The telephone directory of the end of the last century, which, for some unknown reason, was found among other literature in the home library, can be easily used to update the wardrobe. And in two ways at once. Firstly, you can find in the list the phone numbers of the tailor-made atelier and order yourself a new thing if the atelier still exists, and secondly, you can arm yourself with tools for working with paper and build yourself a New Year's outfit on your own. Yes, yes, from the pages of the telephone directory.
I'm sure some people have already indulged in similar experiments, using newspaper sheets or toilet paper as material for "new things". But Jolis Paons, the author of a wonderful collection of paper clothes, took an old telephone directory for this purpose - and became the trendsetter of the "telephone fashion".
Directory pages are convenient for many reasons, she said. Firstly, there are many of them in the book, which means enough for the most daring experiment. Secondly, the quality of this paper is much better than newsprint, although it has about the same softness and pliability. And thirdly, it is much easier to find an old telephone in the house than a pile of ancient newspapers and magazines, if you do not engage in hoarding and do not litter balconies, mezzanines and closets with unnecessary waste … And after a party, such a "telephone dress" is easily and simply sent to junk …
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