Political Poster Dress

Oh c'mon Expat, wouldn't you like a pair of Nixon Pants? How about a vest with Mondale on it?

I can't think of any situation where I would want to have the image of some guy's face on my chest. But that's just me.

I think as a collectible, they'd be quite valuable. As was stated in the chair thread from yesterday, people will pay any amount to have something unique.

Hmmm. . .

Below is a reuters video on a exhibit from 2007 titled RRRIPP!! in Athens, Greece, strangely where Expat says he is from. The video shows campaign paper dresses for Nixon and Kennedy although I could find no information on the artist. I was able to find quite a few of the same dresses with that Nixon print for sale but none of the above pictured dresses.

Video of RRRIPP!! Exhibit:

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=46178&newsChannel=gc08

(ok just a side note but how is it that a "fashion scholar" sports a unibrow like that?)

And an auction from Sotheby's in 1999 where paper dresses went for over 1k although I did not see any campaign dresses. I could only find the final bids for Harry Gordon's "poster dresses". Doubtful Rockwell's dresses may have slipped in the auction undetected. But for pricing comparison Sotheby's is probably decent.

http://www.sothebys.com/liveauctions/sneak/archive/pulp.html

List of auctioned items (Harry Gordon listings are dresses)

https://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotResultsDetailList.jsp?event_id=20629&sale_number=NY7294

I can't find any of the dresses from the Look magazine for sale. I'm also guessing that the disposable nature of the material and the fact that the design is pretty obnoxious led to many of them being trashed. Now these items are being displayed in museums and fine art auctions sooooo my guess is that the Rockwell dresses as pictured above would go for a good deal especially since they are documented in a magazine shoot. I would say 800-1K. Personally I would make my own damn paper dress before I bought one. Probably make one to match my tinfoil hat.

Oh, correction to above post. Sotheby's opened bid on an "A-Line Nixon Campaign Dress" @ $300-400.

I'd like to buy a pair of Dukhakis.

Great sleuthing, Pablo! Thanks!

Expat: You don't by chance have a unibrow and look like your choice of weapon is a crowbar? JK.
I lived in an "Athens" as well. I think I might know one particular Athenian that posts here by the name of Paul Thomas. But, could be a different Paul Thomas I dunno. Someone find out for me and I'll give you a tin foil hat from my personal collection.

Anyhoo more humdickery about them paper dresses that beg for flames and first date nightmares.

More proof that Greeks are geeks for paper dresses:

http://rarenest.blogspot.com/2007/08/ebay-paper-dress-bonanza.html

And the JFK paper dress design from the RRRIPP!! exhibit.

http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/devinepaul/paperdress.jpg

Holy damn that picture is huge.

That looks more like someone closely related to JFK. I think it's actually a Ted Kennedy dress.

Give me a little credit. I'm not that old but I know that isn't Ted. Ted's face belongs on a bottle of Chivas Regal.