The wedding is the most special day of our lives, we all want to make our wedding day as special as we can, we plan, venue, wedding dresses, food, guest list, and much more and we make sure that everything should be up to the point.
The most important thing for a bride on her wedding is her bridal dress, she always thinks to dress like a never seen before look.
According to The Knot, the average amount spent on a wedding dress in 2017 was $1500, with accessories coming in at around $270, and it is the huge amount to spend just for a single dress that you will only wear once for a short time.
The designers take full advantage of it, and plays with your emotions during the dress selection, they charge a lot of money for your special day.
But, there are some smart people who use their brain and choose their wedding dress wisely.
The Reddit handle “Alkikatt.” She decided to crochet her own dress with sale-priced crochet thread during her commute, shows her sensibility.
She planned it very smartly, as the dress required 5 months of work, but the finished product was striking, original, versatile and only cost $30 to make.
There are some brilliant people who can play with sewing machines and make something horribly out-of-style to something modern and elegant. YouTube is full of creative people who take to Goodwill and record their progress into designs.
There are also some people who can just make the thing from scratch, using unusual materials to bring their vision to life. Sometimes the final result surprises us and these creative people are appreciable.
One woman named Ruth was given a challenge when her husband gave her the material he wanted to make her dress to be made out of his old parachute.
The parachute was a very important part of the man’s life. Major Claude Hensinger jumped out of a B-29 during WWII while flying back from a bombing run in 1944.
Hensinger and his crew had just successfully made a bombing run over Yowata, Japan but on the way back to base, one of their engines caught fire. Instead of heading home, everyone had to bail out over China.
The parachute saved him and got him safely to the ground in China, and according to We Are The Mighty, it also kept him warm and staunched the bleeding from an injury he’d sustained. He kept the dirty parachute and even presented it to Ruth when he proposed her.
“This is the parachute that saved my life,” he told her, according to Ripley’s Believe It or Not. “I want you to make a wedding gown out of it.”
Ruth accepted the challenge, working with a seamstress to put together a dress that was based on Scarlett O’Hara’s from “Gone With the Wind.”
Apparently, Hensinger was impressed when he saw Ruth walked down the aisle in her creation made by his parachute, and others did, too, many brides used that dress after that.
The couple was married for 49 years before Hensinger died in 1996. In the years between, two other generations of women were married in Ruth Hensinger’s parachute dress.
Now the dress is retired, and the beautiful dress is an installation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, where people will admire the dress for years to come. It’s so amazing that the dress has an interesting past.
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