Ode to Paper Dresses - Part 1

So cute! So 60's! So . . . paper? Yep, this British Airways stewardess dress is one of the oddities of the 1960's - the paper dress. Debuting in 1967, these were a brief style craze that came in mod pop art patterns or the "color your own" versions.

The colors and varieties were endless - even Andy Warhol jumped on the band wagon with his art rendition of the(courtesy of Memphis Vintage) Campell's Souper Paper Dress.


This one was designed by British Airways and looks to be the color your own kind. We found one online at Time Warp Toys for $30 that you can color for yourself - you know you want to!

The fiber is not actual paper, it is a polyester spun blend that feels like very thin fiberglass and can easily be colored with markers or paint - use the permanent kind if you plan on washing the dress.

There are excellent photos of mod design paper dresses at to be found at the Victoria and Albert Museum: just click on the sample squares to see the dresses: