[Art] a wedding dress with rows of tiny mesh pockets containing 6,279 contraceptive pills (pictures)

[IcyPeas]

Jubilee, 2000 by Susie Freeman, a wedding dress with rows of tiny mesh pockets containing 6,279 contraceptive pills, the average a woman may take in her reproductive lifetime.

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[enough]

1. Phenomenal work of art.

[Trueblue1968]

2. OMG ... IT IS ACTUALLY BEAUTIFUL

[leighbythesea2]

3. Could we

Make cute tops with plan bs in them and sell them as art? Just a thought.

[MLAA]

4. Exquisite.

[Bayard]

5. Very practical

[CrispyQ]

6. As a Project Runway fan, I have to say one of the best non-conventional challenges ever!

Very pretty!

[IcyPeas]

13. I'm a PR fan too. I'd love to see someone do something like this in the unconventional challenge

Wonder if they could make this in 2 days? LOL

seems like it's been forever since the last season.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. I have so many questions....

❤️

[panader0]

8. Great dress. But 6279 times they may be needed?

That's a lot of intercourse isn't it? Somebody has a better time than I do. (Or did)

[LisaL]

9. One needs to take contraceptives every day for them to be effective, regardless

of how much sex one is having. It's not a condom.

[whopis01]

12. Not quite sure how they worked the math

but it is supposed to represent the number that a woman would take over her child-bearing years with enough time off of it to have a couple kids.

Something like 21 pills every 4 weeks for 30 years, with a couple years off. Doesn't exactly work out to that number, but comes close.

[3catwoman3]

14. Presuming a pill is taken every day, whether a pill with active...

…ingredients for 21 days or a dummy pill for 7 days, 6279 divided by 365 = 17.2 years, which certainly falls short of most women’s total years of potential fertility.

[ultralite001]

10. Would the dress be equally elegant...

using condoms???

That is all...

[wendyb-NC]

11. Brilliant work of Art

Really beautiful dress, with a powerful message.

[TeamProg]

15. I (heart) it!

[TeamProg]

16. That's one for the Smithsonian. nt

[electric_blue68]

17. Oh, that turned out to be quite lovely!

My mom was a dressmaker & designer - mostly as a helper bc she left the field before she could go on to bigger things.
But, boy, did our clothes when she made some looked right out of Saks Fifth Ave they were so well made! 🥰

I don't have cable so I've glimpsed it at my sis's on her TV. It's crazy fun!

And thanks, I went on to the woman's art site and saw a lot of fiber+ artists' works - involving knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidery, quilting, and more. Wonderful stuff. 🥰👍


As an artist I've drawn lots of Sci Fyish & sometimes Fantasy clothing, or fancy evening wear among other things. Love it.