Jean and Tony recall wedding dresses made from airmen's parachute silk; Jean remembers sitting for hours with other women sewing on beads from chandeliers and offers a fascinating insight into the impact of food rationing postwar:http://www.archive.org/details/ParachuteWeddingDressesAndRationingWwiiAustralia
To see a parachute wedding dress in the Smithsonian's collection, click here:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/costume/object.cfm?recordnumber=834994
Image: Jean and Tony.
