I'm posting this Yellow Pages Dress because it reminds me of my own experience as a Yellow Page. After high school I took a job as a Bell Canada directory assistance operator. It was a boring job and I was pleased when I was chosen to be one of a group of young ladies who would represent the company at conventions and trade shows. We wore custom-made yellow A-line dresses made of a stiff uncreasable fabric called crimplene. The outfit was completed by a capelet. My career as a Yellow Page was cut short when I decided I was not cut out to wear yellow crimplene and returned to school.
What no pics?
ReplyDeleteWas crimplene the same as or similar to those stiff petticoat things one could wear under a dress?
I didn't take many photos back then. I think I had a Polaroid Swinger but the film for it was pricey. I've tried (unsuccessfully) to find photos of the Yellow Pages online. Crimplene was a 'Fabric For The Future': https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/sixties-britain/fabric-future/ Strangely, I don't see many people wearing it today.
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