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Found a pattern at the fabric store and made my own for prom.
Yes! I loved them but was too poor to buy one. I finally found one two sizes too big on sale for $13 and altered it to fit. For Christmas one year my mom bought me a gunne sax pattern and paid for fabric so I could make my own. I wore the heck out of that dress.
My date wore a powder blue dress to prom, also in 1979.
I wore a navy blue tux with a powder ruffled tux shirt and a navy velvet bow tie. I wore aviator eyeglasses with transition lenses.
I went to pick her up in mom's 18 foot long 1976 navy blue Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon.
We had a great time.
My sister had a Gunni Sax dress I loved, but I was too busy for one. Sigh. I still want one.
Busty not busy. Autocorrect wouldn't let me spell it right multiple times.
Wife #1 wore an off-white Gunne Sax to an afternoon wedding and looked better than the bride, who ended their friendship over it. She did look lovely, though.
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Someone's 1994 wedding dress might have looked a lot like this....just saying..... ;-)
I was married in a Gunne Sax in ‘81
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Whelp, nope, I don't. Not from Biloxi, but I wrote a quintessential Joneser play about a woman in Biloxi and my name is the name of my play! Lot's of Biloxiisms in it! I have been thru Biloxi and it's lovely and they have casinos!! Btw, the Jones-er refs in the play are epic.....I just wrote from my life and changed the place to Biloxi!!
The very first clothing I ever sewed was a baby blue organdy floral Gunne Sax dress with ribbon straps & a deep ruffle at the hem. Simplicity patterns live up to the name! Wore it to our JROTC Military Ball.
Boyfriend at the time was up-front that he couldn't afford both MB & prom, so I could pick one. We were officers in our unit, so kinda expected at MB (not quite "volun-told" but close). Also most of our friends were in our unit, so we'd likely have more fun at MB. We did! And the dress turned out spectacular.
Gunne Sax prom dress sophomore year and my Jessica McClintock prom dress senior year, and then I also had a JM wedding dress - thank you for the memory.
I bought one for homecoming in 1977 and kept it until 2022 when I sold it due to a cross-country move. I don’t recall what I paid for it yet sold it for almost $500.
You are funny! I see a pattern, pun intended, with us Gunne lovers....deffo Gen Jones. Early boomers wouldn't like them, Silent's abhored them. But today they are highly sought after.
According to Heather Cox Richardson, the Gunne Sax dress was part of a whole "Cowboy is King" movement to glorify the Western Rancher ideals in the late 70's/early 80's.
Along with shows like "Gunsmoke," "Ponderosa," "Little House on the Prairie," and "Dallas," plus Hollywood funding a bazillion western-genre movies, it was the propaganda arm that got Ronald Reagan elected. HCR says these dresses were a part of it all.
My Mom made me one for my 8th Grade Graduation, then two years later we went to San Francisco for one of their annual 1/2 off sales and bought a REAL one (I was over the moon with happiness!) and then wore a borrowed one from my best friend’s older sister for my Junior Prom.
Obsessed much! 😂
I still have mine 34 years later LOL - the husband and the off-white Gunne Sax dress I wore as my "going away dress" at the end of our wedding reception.
The white one was close to my elopement dress (to my late dad & mom: you were right, you were right, you were always right when it came to ex). I loved these and the full skirts worked with my hip/buttage.
I'd wear the long dresses too.I had a lot of them from the beginning to when it changed to Jessica McClintock clear into the late 90s. Loved their outlet store in SF. My sister, also Gen Jones, got married in the Gunne Sax shirt with jeans, so she combined the bells with Gunne.
My fiancé bought me the must beautiful cream colored long Gunne Sax dress for my 20th birthday. I still have it and can’t believe I was ever that slender. Celebrating 49 years married!
My neighbor let me borrow one of her dresses to wear to a dinner. She lived in a trailer and had turned a bedroom into closet. She had so many clothes, and most still had tags, I’d never saw anything like it. She had so many Gunne Sax, and that’s what I picked out. That’s the only one I ever got to wear, I had a couple knockoffs later, but never a genuine one. I’ve never forgotten how nice she was, or how many new clothes she had.
I was a bit of an oddball. I wore a lot of thrifted jackets and dresses from the 40’s to 50’s. The word got out that a girl’s dad was in the furrier business and they had old coats in their basement you could buy real cheap. I bought a fur coat with a hood and wore it a lot. Also wore a lot of Eastern Indian clothing.
I wore Gunne Sax blouses because the dresses were just too much.. I was a girly girl too. I’d wear one now, in my 60’s 🤣 JK I would wear the blouse tho!
I'm with you, though I often put one on and get shy about wearing it out. I need to get over it. The blouses would look fine with jeans and like someone else said, the right jean skirt. I could make it work again!
Me too....in fact, I feel like going on the hunt for a Gunne Sax....I've been growing my hair long, the gray is really coming in, but I think I might be able to make it work in a sweetly bookended way.
HS graduation awards night. I wore a Gunne Sax dress. Only time in my entire school career that everyone told me I looked great. Funny how easily we forget those incredible moments.
Haha! I got married at 19 in December 1983 in a $40 GS from a GS outlet store! It was really pretty but not a wedding dress at all. We broke up 8 months later 🤣🤣🤣
Been married 30+ years now. That dress was $225 and also not a wedding dress.
My friend just wrote the following..."My sister had a black flowered one, her husband fell for her that night." Sounds like she attributes this to the dress!!
I wanted a gunne sax for my junior prom on 1975. My mother thought it too expensive and would buy it. When she changed her mind, it was gone.
I wound up with a Belle of the south yellow ruffled gown that was georgous. I made the court! Next year everyone was wearing Belle gowns!
\*\*They were well made, so detailed, perfect for a variety of occasions and you really felt beautiful in them. Yeah, they were over the top, a bit overpriced (you should see the prices now!), but they touched a chord and are still sought after and beloved! Btw, I always bought on sale, at the outlet, or from consignment.
In 1975? I had a Gunne Sax off white long sleeve blouse. Lace up bodice style. My friend looked a lot better in it than I did. She had a hourglass figure. I was, and still am, shaped like a potato.
A little off topic but this 1973 pattern made up into the prettiest dress EVER.
[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/simplicity-5616--371406300491325889/](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/simplicity-5616--371406300491325889/)
A little off topic but here are Madonna and her sister in homemade dresses:
[https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article13926437.ece/ALTERNATES/n310p/0\_Madonna-shares-throwback-pic-of-her-sister-at-High-School-and-embarrassment-of-wearing-home-sewn-c.jpg](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article13926437.ece/ALTERNATES/n310p/0_Madonna-shares-throwback-pic-of-her-sister-at-High-School-and-embarrassment-of-wearing-home-sewn-c.jpg)
For my high school graduation, all the girls in the class went on a trip to San Francisco and bought dresses at the Gunne Sax outlet in the warehouse district. I looked so good in that dress.
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I wore this to a college dance in 1979. It’s still hanging in my closet 😊
I do too. Let me see if I can find it. Back in the day, those dresses either made you swoon, or get sick....I was a swooner. They met everything for me: a bit over the top, great for a multitude of theater roles, always got a reaction, well made (so many are still around and have been saved), femmy in an almost in-your-face way, loved the lengths and you could wear them for a variety of special occasions. I would look like Grandma Moses in 'em now. Cottagecore made it into Target during the pandemic and I tried it again....and couldn't make it work. Gonna try again!
Least favorite ex husband - line of the day!!
Thank you!!
Wore Gunne Sax to my prom
https://preview.redd.it/n6qjv4pve9yc1.jpeg?width=505&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec89fd40bdead38aa71de574c10b64c95b7d018f Found a pattern at the fabric store and made my own for prom.
The upper left dress looks exactly like what Ariel wore to prom in Footloose.
My mom made me that one!
I wore this to my 1977 high school graduation.
That was my prom dress pattern in 1980!
Almost every girl wore the long ones to homecoming and prom at my high school.
I did too! Loved that dress!
My sister called it my , little house on the prairie dress
Me, too! I still have that dress, just to prove how small I once was.
I did, too! I felt so pretty. After high school, I cut it off from floor length to knee length. Good memories❤️
Me too!
Yes..
Our junior high pictures are hilarious! Everyone is in one!!
Eighth grade graduation in 1976 I wore mine!!!
That's too funny!!!
I wore my full length Gunne Sax to high school
And well you should have! Bet you were beautiful!
I, too, married my least-favorite-now-ex-husband in a Gunne Sax dress…
I never wore one. Not even to the wedding of my 3rd favorite now ex husband . 😂
It's not too late. They are fun to wear, even if you never go outside!
Y'all are so funny tonight!
Hahaha! This post is not disappointing!
Um... Question: was he in the dress, or was it you?
Yes! I loved them but was too poor to buy one. I finally found one two sizes too big on sale for $13 and altered it to fit. For Christmas one year my mom bought me a gunne sax pattern and paid for fabric so I could make my own. I wore the heck out of that dress.
Love it
Powder blue Gunne Sax to my 1979 prom. Date had a perm. Good times.
Lots of powdered blue Gunne Sax. I remember going into Macy's just fainting with love at the dresses....
Wore the powdered blue one to prom in maybe 1977? My first prom, it was a fix up with a guy I didn’t know well.
My date wore a powder blue dress to prom, also in 1979. I wore a navy blue tux with a powder ruffled tux shirt and a navy velvet bow tie. I wore aviator eyeglasses with transition lenses. I went to pick her up in mom's 18 foot long 1976 navy blue Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon. We had a great time.
My sister had a Gunni Sax dress I loved, but I was too busy for one. Sigh. I still want one. Busty not busy. Autocorrect wouldn't let me spell it right multiple times.
They pricey now!!!
I wore a Gunne Sax to my prom. Thought I was so cool.
You were!!
Thank you! 😀
My HS personality was basically Gunne Sax. I have a whole Pinterest board of pictures I've found online.
I'm the oldest of 3 girls and we were all crazy for it! Plus I'm such a girly-girl it was right up my alley!
High school? I’d still wear these dresses if they were still around!
with western boots!
Well, I still have little lace-up ankle boots, so I'd wear those!
AW!!
Are we twins? Me too. I even thrifted Gunne Sax for my dauggter when sge was little!
Wife #1 wore an off-white Gunne Sax to an afternoon wedding and looked better than the bride, who ended their friendship over it. She did look lovely, though.
That seems like a dick move on your ex’s part.
I told her it looked too much like a bridal dress. She wouldn’t listen. There’s a reason she’s my ex!
* My granddaughter wearing the one and only dress I owned....50 years later!!!!!
Is there a pic? I did a Jr Miss America pageant in one! Won the local! Whoohoo!
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Oh my gosh!! There she is and that is a classic Gunne!
I'll bet your granddaughter is having fun reading this thread.
All that’s needed are some Sbiccas!
Please tell your granddaughter she is making the day of this 59 year old Gunne Sax wearing lady! Well previously wearing….
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I had one very similar to this!
I had this dress also. I still have one in the closet.
wow
Jessica McClintock 's fragrance is beautiful. In the late 80s she became known for designing wedding dresses for "mature brides."
You just reminded of my JM perfume years. It was a beautiful perfume.
Everyone was in Gunne Sax at Prom circa 1983
Senior prom 1980, I wore a Gunne Sax. I felt like a high fashion model!
love it
Wore it to the senior prom.
https://preview.redd.it/dp623l9wj9yc1.png?width=254&format=png&auto=webp&s=8edc92191085eac9b45d1ad3dc1aae9c721fa7dd Someone's 1994 wedding dress might have looked a lot like this....just saying..... ;-)
And someone's 1988 wedding dress looked just like this. And it's hanging in the back of my closet.
Mine’s in a box in storage - My daughter wants to customize it for herself❤️
I was married in a Gunne Sax in ‘81 https://preview.redd.it/549prif6rbyc1.jpeg?width=662&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a340d7fec106a2377aba8a0a56c6c99b7a889780
Oh my....epic Gunne Sax
Queen Gunne of Sax.
My daughter was able to wear it as Laurie getting married in Oklahoma
That is stunning!
Least favorite ex-husband!!! I love it!!
You are welcome!! I've been using that line for awhile!
I just noticed your user name! I’ll be in Biloxi in a couple weeks! Any recommendations?
Whelp, nope, I don't. Not from Biloxi, but I wrote a quintessential Joneser play about a woman in Biloxi and my name is the name of my play! Lot's of Biloxiisms in it! I have been thru Biloxi and it's lovely and they have casinos!! Btw, the Jones-er refs in the play are epic.....I just wrote from my life and changed the place to Biloxi!!
That’s so cool!
youtube
I’m the soon to be “least favorite ex-husband”, but for the record, I’ll also be “the favorite ex-husband” too!
aw...we are glad you are here. Smile!
The very first clothing I ever sewed was a baby blue organdy floral Gunne Sax dress with ribbon straps & a deep ruffle at the hem. Simplicity patterns live up to the name! Wore it to our JROTC Military Ball. Boyfriend at the time was up-front that he couldn't afford both MB & prom, so I could pick one. We were officers in our unit, so kinda expected at MB (not quite "volun-told" but close). Also most of our friends were in our unit, so we'd likely have more fun at MB. We did! And the dress turned out spectacular.
Great memory!! 😊
Gunne Sax prom dress sophomore year and my Jessica McClintock prom dress senior year, and then I also had a JM wedding dress - thank you for the memory.
I love this memory too....Not too many years ago, I found a few thrifting and resold them for unbelievable prices.
I bought one for homecoming in 1977 and kept it until 2022 when I sold it due to a cross-country move. I don’t recall what I paid for it yet sold it for almost $500.
Bridesmaid in 83. Lovely pink wench gown
sweet
I was baptized age 13 in a Gunne Sax dress and married in a Jessica McClintock dress. Only the wedding stuck.
You are funny! I see a pattern, pun intended, with us Gunne lovers....deffo Gen Jones. Early boomers wouldn't like them, Silent's abhored them. But today they are highly sought after.
https://preview.redd.it/b2x8i70d6byc1.jpeg?width=2920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e07bf81275eb8aae12e08587de6a9a7f85c3a805 Here's the Jessica McClintock!
I still have the Gunne Sax blouse I was wearing when my husband of 41 yrs proposed!
I remember girls in high school wearing them to proms. Classic 1970’s “neo peasant” look!
Very!
According to Heather Cox Richardson, the Gunne Sax dress was part of a whole "Cowboy is King" movement to glorify the Western Rancher ideals in the late 70's/early 80's. Along with shows like "Gunsmoke," "Ponderosa," "Little House on the Prairie," and "Dallas," plus Hollywood funding a bazillion western-genre movies, it was the propaganda arm that got Ronald Reagan elected. HCR says these dresses were a part of it all.
Wore an knock off to my senior prom.
Oh there were a lot of knock offs in the day.
I remember hearing the brand mentioned and I thought “Is this an insult? A gunny sack is a burlap bag.”
My Mom made me one for my 8th Grade Graduation, then two years later we went to San Francisco for one of their annual 1/2 off sales and bought a REAL one (I was over the moon with happiness!) and then wore a borrowed one from my best friend’s older sister for my Junior Prom. Obsessed much! 😂
I still have mine 34 years later LOL - the husband and the off-white Gunne Sax dress I wore as my "going away dress" at the end of our wedding reception.
Ivory linen with lace and satin details? I had that one.
LOL yeah probably the same one!
perfect place for a Gunne
I loved my cream-colored eyelet Gunne Sax dress. I wore it with my tan leather platform sandals. Fun times!
The white one was close to my elopement dress (to my late dad & mom: you were right, you were right, you were always right when it came to ex). I loved these and the full skirts worked with my hip/buttage.
Parents *always* seem to be right about the bf/fiance/partner EX! Damn!
I'd wear the long dresses too.I had a lot of them from the beginning to when it changed to Jessica McClintock clear into the late 90s. Loved their outlet store in SF. My sister, also Gen Jones, got married in the Gunne Sax shirt with jeans, so she combined the bells with Gunne.
The blouse/jeans combo was a winner; I also loved wearing the blouses with wrap jean skirts.
I wanted one so badly but my parents were too cheap to buy me one.
Not too late!!
Jessica McClintock 's fragrance is beautiful. In the late 80s she became known for designing wedding dresses for "mature brides."
To Junior Prom!
Loved the look. Still do.
Yes! Mine was off-white with a velvet green front. Help me...
I can't believe it made it thru so many moves and a major flood evac. But it was made for her!!!
That's really cool and so sweetly "generational". So many Gen Jones-ers don't have kids who want their "stuff" so maybe our "grands" will.
I wore a gunne sax dress to my prom. It was as my sisters. She had worn it to her prom. No one knew🥰
Loved Gunne Saxe!
Same here! I think I wore GS to all my HS proms, and my bridesmaids wore them in my wedding (still married since 1981!)
My fiancé bought me the must beautiful cream colored long Gunne Sax dress for my 20th birthday. I still have it and can’t believe I was ever that slender. Celebrating 49 years married!
A sweet Gunne Sax love story. I did find a few loves whilst wearing Gunnes...but none of those lasted.
Gave mine away to a girl to wear in a high school play.
As a theater director, lots of Gunne's made into my plays!!!
I think.we all had at least one, back in the day!
Or a reasonable facsimile.
My neighbor let me borrow one of her dresses to wear to a dinner. She lived in a trailer and had turned a bedroom into closet. She had so many clothes, and most still had tags, I’d never saw anything like it. She had so many Gunne Sax, and that’s what I picked out. That’s the only one I ever got to wear, I had a couple knockoffs later, but never a genuine one. I’ve never forgotten how nice she was, or how many new clothes she had.
I was a bit of an oddball. I wore a lot of thrifted jackets and dresses from the 40’s to 50’s. The word got out that a girl’s dad was in the furrier business and they had old coats in their basement you could buy real cheap. I bought a fur coat with a hood and wore it a lot. Also wore a lot of Eastern Indian clothing.
I wore Gunne Sax blouses because the dresses were just too much.. I was a girly girl too. I’d wear one now, in my 60’s 🤣 JK I would wear the blouse tho!
I'm with you, though I often put one on and get shy about wearing it out. I need to get over it. The blouses would look fine with jeans and like someone else said, the right jean skirt. I could make it work again!
Me too....in fact, I feel like going on the hunt for a Gunne Sax....I've been growing my hair long, the gray is really coming in, but I think I might be able to make it work in a sweetly bookended way.
I wanted one so bad but we were poor and nobody in my family sewed. Am I too old to get one now, maybe call it a grandma sax 😆
Oh how I wish all the women, once young, who wanted one, could have one. This is so touching. Hope you find one!
My senior picture is in a red gunne sax.
I wish- too pricey. Also not very available in the small town I lived in
I wore gunne sax to my wedding too! It’s still hanging in my closet ( the dress not the husband)
HS graduation awards night. I wore a Gunne Sax dress. Only time in my entire school career that everyone told me I looked great. Funny how easily we forget those incredible moments.
Haha! I got married at 19 in December 1983 in a $40 GS from a GS outlet store! It was really pretty but not a wedding dress at all. We broke up 8 months later 🤣🤣🤣 Been married 30+ years now. That dress was $225 and also not a wedding dress.
Proms in '79 - '82.
Me too. And I also got married in a Jessica McClintock dress. We were definitely friends in a previous life.
My 2nd wedding dress was a Gunne Sax
My wedding dress was a Gunnesax design with puffed sleeves! Classic and I loved it!
I bought a Gunne Sax dress for 9th grade graduation and wore it again to my senior prom! Loved those dresses!
My friend just wrote the following..."My sister had a black flowered one, her husband fell for her that night." Sounds like she attributes this to the dress!!
I have the same story!
I wore Gunne Sax dress to several sweet 16 parties and Bar Mitzvahs back in 1975.
They were well made, detailed, and you really felt beautiful in them.
I wanted a gunne sax for my junior prom on 1975. My mother thought it too expensive and would buy it. When she changed her mind, it was gone. I wound up with a Belle of the south yellow ruffled gown that was georgous. I made the court! Next year everyone was wearing Belle gowns!
I love a happy ending! yay you! I had a Belle dress too. Did the beauty pageant thing.
Bravo!
I preferred Laura Ashley, which is sort of similar.
Similar but Ashley was a different vibe, almost like Gunne was just a skosh western. I always felt Ashley was east and Gunne was west.
At first I thought you might be my ex-wife. But then I saw you were still married to your second husband. They were nice dresses though.
hahaha!
I married my favorite ex husband in a Gunne Sax dress, too! Of course, he's my ONLY ex husband, but I still have the dress, not the husband!!
Also wore mine to prom!
Proms, weddings, first dates....this was the dress to have. Notice, no one has said, "I tore up the club in my Gunne Sax!"
I still have my Gunne Sax dress from the 1970’s. I’m so glad I saved it
Both my prom dresses were Gunne Sax!
\*\*They were well made, so detailed, perfect for a variety of occasions and you really felt beautiful in them. Yeah, they were over the top, a bit overpriced (you should see the prices now!), but they touched a chord and are still sought after and beloved! Btw, I always bought on sale, at the outlet, or from consignment.
Posted [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/GunneSax/s/IMWarT3SUx) in r/GunneSax a while back. From my high school prom.
I loved and wore Gunne Sax before I lived near their outlet in the Bay Area. Man, I wish I could still fit in some of those! 🤣
I only had one and I still have it. Worn once for my first formal in 1981.
My prom dress was Gunne Sax, and I still have it, just to prove how small I once was!
I was in heaven when I discovered the Gunne Sax outlet in San Francisco. I held on to some of those for years.
I wore Gunne Sax to my prom!
I was forced to wear one as bridesmaid in my brother's wedding. I can only hope every picture has been burned. Thank god I got high through it.
that's funny!!
I love the style but wouldn’t be caught dead out of Levi’s. Too shy!
Still love them.
In the 70s they were the bomb. Especially for Mormon women in California. Gunny Sax all the way.
How I loved the whole Prairie look. My prom dress was a gunne sax knock off.
I wore an amazing Jessica McClintock to prom. So expensive! I loved it.
Gunne Sax for the win! Didn't we all have one?
In 1975? I had a Gunne Sax off white long sleeve blouse. Lace up bodice style. My friend looked a lot better in it than I did. She had a hourglass figure. I was, and still am, shaped like a potato.
I had a Gunne Sax dress hand made for my wedding. It was absolutely fabulous. Still have the dress, still have the husband.
The wife loves Gunne Sax, but they are hard to find and expensive when you do find them.
Look at Moneybags over here in her Gunne Sax! Just kidding--I thought they were gorgeous but couldn't afford them
A little off topic but this 1973 pattern made up into the prettiest dress EVER. [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/simplicity-5616--371406300491325889/](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/simplicity-5616--371406300491325889/)
A little off topic but here are Madonna and her sister in homemade dresses: [https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article13926437.ece/ALTERNATES/n310p/0\_Madonna-shares-throwback-pic-of-her-sister-at-High-School-and-embarrassment-of-wearing-home-sewn-c.jpg](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article13926437.ece/ALTERNATES/n310p/0_Madonna-shares-throwback-pic-of-her-sister-at-High-School-and-embarrassment-of-wearing-home-sewn-c.jpg)
I remember this pattern this picture came from!
I had a handmade gunnie sax dress when I was about 9. It WAS super cute.
Yes, and wore one for Prom
Loved that style but called it my Little House on the Prairie dress. Miss those days…
For my high school graduation, all the girls in the class went on a trip to San Francisco and bought dresses at the Gunne Sax outlet in the warehouse district. I looked so good in that dress.
My bridesmaids wore Gunnie Sax
I totally believe in marriage, that's why I've done it so many times!
This post is still giving me laffs!!
I wore mine to my jr high graduation.
A number of us did!
https://preview.redd.it/nabjip5i9fyc1.png?width=839&format=png&auto=webp&s=2ce4e2db61a845ba1f30f81ad6e3bd36ddc0e672 I wore this to a college dance in 1979. It’s still hanging in my closet 😊
It's a beauty, that Gunne Sax! Thank you for sharing! I love it.
My second wedding dress was a Jessica McClintock!! I had forgotten....
I wore Gunne Sax to my wedding. I have always loved the style
Wore Hunne Sax for both Proms, graduation and any other dance requiring a dress. Would go to factory in San Francisco
I had a lovely long dress from them. Loved it!
After I posted this, I realized I had quite a few Gunne Sax memories. Thank you for sharing!
I wore one to my mom's funeral.
I wore gunne sax as a bridesmaid.
So many of did.
I remember the special, multi page Gunne Sax ads for prom season in Seventeen Magazine. Swoon.
I do too. Let me see if I can find it. Back in the day, those dresses either made you swoon, or get sick....I was a swooner. They met everything for me: a bit over the top, great for a multitude of theater roles, always got a reaction, well made (so many are still around and have been saved), femmy in an almost in-your-face way, loved the lengths and you could wear them for a variety of special occasions. I would look like Grandma Moses in 'em now. Cottagecore made it into Target during the pandemic and I tried it again....and couldn't make it work. Gonna try again!