Little known fact: Former West Asheville-based hosiery company Mars of Asheville put this WNC town on the map in the mid ‘60s with super-trendy paper dresses. A fore-runner in the disposables industry ...

Disposable paper dresses enjoyed a brief vogue in the turbulent late 1960s, when young people literally wore their politics and interests on their sleeves—but were prepared to discard them as easily ...

In the 1960's, "paper dress" made of paper became popular, and many artists and designers including Andy · Warhol announced paper dress of various designs. The origin of this epidemic is to ...

Question: While clearing out items for my 90-year-old aunt’s move to a senior care facility, I discovered this paper dress. It was in its original package, unopened. As a collector of things from the ...

Question: This Pop Art paper dress with Campbell’s Soup can motifs was tucked away in the bottom of my late grandmother’s old cedar chest. I don’t think she ever wore it since it is in the original ...

An artist has fashioned an elaborate wedding gown using nothing but 11 rolls of toilet paper, 100 ft of tape and a hefty quantity of glue. Olivia Mears, an art student based in Asheville, North ...