While flipping through the glossy pages of a bridal magazine, Stacey saw “the” dress. She had to have it.
After a hard target search, she found the lacy, high-collared wedding dress of her dreams.
But she couldn’t find the accompanying hat. “I had the hat custom made. I wanted to look exactly like the model in the ad,” Stacey said.
Looking back, she now thinks she was simple “young and stupid,” but the heart wants what the heart wants. For most heading into matrimony, making dreams come true is important.
After the wedding Stacey had the dress cleaned and paid good money to have it packaged and stored, hoping one day a future daughter might want to be married in the dress. That didn’t happen. Not only did the marriage fail, but her daughter had her own thoughts on a dress for her special day.
There were times when destroying memories from her nuptials might have made her feel good — at least for a moment — but “I didn’t want to show anger in front of my children.”
Stacey isn’t her real name. She asked to remain anonymous to spare any embarrassment to the family.
The dress stayed in a locked compartment, moved often from home to home and state to state over the next few decades. At the time, it was hard to think of letting go of the most important part of life’s most important ceremony. Yet, looking back, Stacey’s effort was a lot of care that resulted in little reward.
Styles change and dry, cool storage space is valuable. Letting go of an expensive dress, the value now wrapped up in sentiment, is tough for most.
But now there’s a way your dream can help future generations. Students in the Photographic Communications department at Northwest College want to immortalize your special occasion garments — from that special dress to bridesmaid outfits, suits, tuxes and all the accessories — in their portfolios.
The wardrobe collection at the college is showing its age. Once pristine wedding dresses have yellowed from overuse in past years. Some don’t reflect modern styles, despite being in great shape.
Students desperately need to have special occasion clothing for photo sessions that will help them form their futures in photography.
“We are very much in need of new bridal dresses,” said Christine Garceau, associate professor of photography.
Men’s suits and tuxedos are also in great demand. Garceau’s husband donated a custom tailored suit — the only decent one on the racks — and finding a model to fit it perfectly adds hours to the task.
The portfolios students develop while studying are crucial to finding jobs once out in the real world. Not only is Garceau an educator, she also spent many years running a studio in her home state of Michigan, covering more than 300 weddings herself.
“This is a really good cause. Our students need to produce portraits of people in wedding outfits to show when they graduate,” she said. “They’re not going to get their first job photographing a wedding unless they have something to show their skills.”
Garceau has shopped around at thrift stores, but even those are hard on the program’s tight budget.
“We have big budget cuts coming down from the state right now,” she said.
The college needs various sizes, colors and an assortment of belts, ties, shoes and other formal accessories. Some may question whether their possible donations are needed — you never know. The wardrobe collection even has a suit of arms.
Donate your dress to NWC
To donate your dress — or other formal clothing and accessories —
contact professor Christine Garceau at 307-754-6497 or through the Northwest College Photographic Communications department’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/NWCPhoto/
http://www.powelltribune.com/stories/the-dress-dilemma,23354
2020-01-10 15:10:00Z
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