How many times have you thought there must be some second life for all of those GPO wrappings as you dropped them into the trash? Here’s one use: Government Documents are wearable art, and three government documents divas set out to prove that have gov docs, will travel down the runway. In December, Kathleen Wiechelman at the UAS Ketchikan Campus Library asked us to send them our gov docs envelopes, and we were happy to have them recycled into well-tailored ball gowns. Here’s what Kathleen said about the event:
Here are a couple of photos of the gown that my library assistant [Kathy Graham] made me out of those lovely gov doc envelopes, as well as a shot of us all… The beauty queen librarians were a big hit in our Wearable Art Show this year! My boss, Judith, is wearing a skirt of nautical charts, and Lisa, the Adult Services Librarian at the Ketchikan Public Library, is wearing book covers. What fun.
Kathy, amazing talent! And the models all look splendid. Please click the image for a larger picture.
