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From: "Joyce Vonstrahl" <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Wedding Dresses
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 19:03:26 -0700
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Trust you to find something so interesting Tricia. I hope you have a good
response with the stories to match for us. I wonder if the idea for
donating. renting or buying brides dresses to benefit breast cancer research
originated (In Texas I think) came from that. I for one never heard of
Barbara Cartland, until Princess Diana came into our world. I never knew of
her books either, Yikes !
love Joyce

On 10/7/06, girlbond <> wrote:
>
> wow
> how cool is that
> dose any one know what happend to the dress
>
> Jenny
> > wrote:
> I would like to ask all of the British warbrides whether any of them
> hired a wedding dress from Barbara Cartland, who hired them out for the day
> for £1.
>
> "During the Second World War Barbara Cartland was Chief Lady Welfare
> Officer in Bedfordshire looking after 20,000 service men and women. She had
> the idea of gathering as many wedding dresses as she could for hire, so that
> service brides would have a white dress to wear on their wedding day. She
> bought 1,000 second hand gowns without coupons for the ATS, the WAAFS and
> the WRENS and made many brides' big day, very special.
>
> In 1945 Barbara Cartland received the Certificate of Merit from Eastern
> Command."
>
> Tricia
>
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Joyce


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