The Red Dress

First, a little history.  This dress was hand stitched by Kori's Great Grandma Veleta and first worn by Grandma Pauline in 1957.  She wore it in the Miss Franklin County Pageant where she was crowned 4th attendant!  She was 19.  I SO wish we had a photo of Grandma wearing the dress!  We think there is a slide somewhere and we are going to hunt it down.  When we find it I will add it to this post!  I wore the dress in 1985.  I had recently lost my Grandma Veleta and I wanted to wear it for sentimental reasons, and because I thought it was so beautiful with all that red lace!  I wore it to the Ricks College Preference Dance, and my totally 80's date was my good friend Shane Pratt.

Flash forward to 2013.  50's style and red lace is high fashion right now, and Kori has been wanting to wear the dress for a long time.  She wanted it to be for something special, so she waited for her Senior Ball.  We had a little tailoring to do, which made me nervous, but also helped me feel a kinship with my Grandma as I worked.   Kori wanted it a little shorter.  We also took out the zipper and put in a lace up back.  Here it is on Kori before...

And after... She looks SO CUTE in it!  It's her dream dress and she's been so excited about wearing it!

Kori's date is her good friend, Kolton.  She has a really fun group too with some of her best friends.  She had the "best day date ever" earlier today.  They were on their way up Cove canyon to do some paintballing when they stumbled across the American Medieval Reenactment Society's annual retreat!  They went to check it out and ended up staying all afternoon!  They learned all about medieval history and armor and watched some epic battles.  Sounds like a lot of fun.  They never did go paintballing!  I guess they'll have to do that another time.  Kolton and Kori looked awesome together!!

And a PS... Grandma came on Sunday and was so tickled to see Kori in the red dress.  Here are the "ladies in red", 1957, 1985 and 2013, wow!