Real eye-popping dress at Shrewsbury shop
It took more than 10 hours and hundreds of poppies to complete, and has been turning heads for all the right reasons.
Vesna Price, owner of Shrewsbury’s Marianne’s Exclusive Fashions, has created this tribute to Britain’s fallen soldiers to mark this year’s Poppy Appeal and Remembrance Sunday.
Her shop is one of a number of independent traders in Shrewsbury to feature a remembrance-themed window display.
The poppy dress was created over a period of more than 10 hours and involved covering a chicken wire frame with hundreds of poppies provided by Jenny Robey of the local branch of the Royal British Legion.
Vesna said: “I have had this idea in my head for a while now about doing the dress in the window so I got in touch with the Royal British Legion and they put me in contact with the local co-ordinator, Jenny Robey, and she sent me about four bin bags of last year’s poppies for us to use.”
Vesna said she was pleased with the way the completed dress looks and at the reaction it has been receiving from people walking past the shop.
She said: “When I was working on it the reaction was so positive. I was thinking 'I’ve got a few hours left to do' but we had so many knocks on the window and people taking pictures it was great.
“I am really pleased with it. You never know how things are going to turn out and what the response will be but the feedback has been great.
“It i a brilliant cause, I don’t think you can do enough for it. The Royal British Legion is just a great cause and it is so important that we remember the sacrifices made.”
