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Weird Nebraska Don't Wash That Dress, Recycle It! 

Why would anyone make a dress out of crepe paper? Was it a gag? Did they own stock in a paper company? We don't know the answer, but someone in the Frahm family of the Fort Calhoun area made this paper dress in the 1910s.


Crepe paper dress
Source: Loaned by the Washington County Historical Society, Fort Calhoun, Nebraska

 

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