Sunday, February 28, 2010

What's Penny Wearing? #25 Gunne Sax

What's Penny wearing today, you ask? Well, it's yet another of my vintage Gunne Sax by Jessica McClintock dresses. I have shown you a few of them in previous posts. (To see them all, you can enter Gunne Sax in the Search box) You may have already guessed that I loved them all back in the day. But this one? This one really is my favorite. And that's why I still have it after all these years. A pale green mini-gingham confection with tiered skirt and pink rosebud collar and cuffs, complete with pink floral trim and green rickrack:
It was my prom dress, and I was in love.
Below, you see a picture of me wearing it on prom night. Penny, above, is wearing it with the same necklace I wore:

And my friend Debbie, who was our Homecoming Queen, borrowed it to wear in a picture that was taken for the yearbook:
Believe it or not, I actually ended up wearing it a couple of years later to work at Sierra Nevada House. That was a mistake. Although I had, of course, washed it, it had a LOT of stains all over and I was so sentimentally attached to it that I kept it anyhow, packed away in my cedar chest. I dug it out recently and treated them with Spray 'N Wash with Resolve Power - and the stains from 35 years ago CAME OUT!
My special dress is beautiful once again, and I am a happy girl.

7 comments:

  1. love the story of this dress! and the pictures.....penny lane was so lucky to end up with you heidi!

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  2. Love the dress!! How wonderful you got the stains out!! You looked adorable in it as did Debbie!!

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  3. Love your prop picture. What a great dress. Amazing that the stains came out.

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  4. Poor, poor pitiful prom date only got a picture of his hand in the blog! Your dress is so precious. Such a 70s statement too, a cotton embroidered rickrack dress instead of satin and lace. You and Debbie both look so cute. Love T

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  5. Love the story of the dress. So amazing that you still have it. Great that the stains came out! Twyla

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  6. Oh, it's such a beauty and how great that you were able to get rid of those old stains!

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