It was Geri Halliwell's sister who stitched a Union flag dishcloth to a Gucci dress -- and made fashion history
Delving into the archives of pop culture history,"Remember When?" is a new series offering a nostalgic look at the celebrity outfits that defined their eras.It was the late 1990s and, during a brief window of respite between Thatcherism and the War on Terror, the UK was awash with optimism. Its economy boomed, the dot-com bubble appeared impenetrable, and the most pressing concern among the Brits was whether the millennium bug might send fax machines into meltdown.
If Ginger Spice epitomized a new type of pop star -- one that cackled through TV interviews and flirted with Prince Charles -- then her daringly short dress, with its low rectangular neckline, embodied a new type of Britishness, free from stuffy, stiff-upper-lip associations. Because although late-1990s Britain was a time of plenty, the era's best-known outfit was, in fact, an ingenious act of DIY: Halliwell had deemed her original black Gucci dress to be"boring," and so had asked her sister, Karen, to stitch a Union Jack dishcloth to its front .She faultlessly captured the national mood, and the dress' historic status was confirmed almost immediately.
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