What are some creative ideas for these dresses?

One of my framers does shadow box displays for sports memorabilia… jerseys and bats arranged behind glass. The dresses sound fun for that.

What about using them to make a patchwork quilt cover? A sister did this from scraps of material left over from dresses that Mom made for in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I now own it, and it is a fond reminder of those times.

Give them to your kids when they have daughters of their own to put dresses on.

Use them as parachutes or for a May Pole Dance??

Pillows are also a fun way to showcase the fabrics of the dresses. You don’t necessarily need much fabric to make them, and colorful throw pillows in retro fabrics go well in essentially any style of room.

Another thought…Mom kept a dress-up or costume box in attic. We loved to use the dresses for play, as well as her granddaughters did. It wasn’t until I was grown up that I discovered that one of the dresses was her wedding gown and another was the dress she wore on her first date with Dad.

If you’re not too keen on deconstructing the dresses, but not necessarily looking to display the actual dresses… you could make a photo collage of them on your wall. Taking a set of photos of the dresses on a dressform or something similar, then putting each photo in an individual frame could make a really interesting wall display.