Just For Us Gals Dept: I have approximately two dresses I wear with any regularity. The other four or five I keep for special occasions -- because you know, schmancy restaurant dress and casual night at the movies dress are not the same sort of animal.
I'm just concerned enough about this sort of thing to keep those seldom-worn dresses around, but they do take up precious room in my limited city apartment closets
Enter this fashionable "from one thing, many uses" renewable dress that I spied on the Russian design blog, "Things" ("Shtuki"). Here's what it says:
This is super!!
The idea is simple in its brilliance: take a white dress with pockets, into the pockets we push the open felt-tip pens -- voila! We get bright summer clothes.
Then we wash the dress, and do it anew with different colors.
Note the classic A line shape -- good for easily 90 percent of one's warrants-a-dress needs. And the different patterns you can make just by limiting the colors and the pockets used. I imagine that some refinements of the fabric used for the pockets could net different shapes or designs for the dyes to flow into.
This is another take on the same design idea -- versatility that doesn't sacrifice style -- that birthed Nau's versatile Chrysalis dress-vest-jacket, with its removable arms and adjustable length.
Video demonstration of the customization in action:
[[[Upon a second viewing, there is something kind of freaky-medical about this video. The white on white, the gesture of inserting the markers into the pockets is vaguely akin to inserting a hypodermic. Maybe I read too much cyberpunk in the 1990s.]]]
Designer's web site: FernandoBrizio.com
* With apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien.
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