スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 7月20日 06時08分

Ruth Hensinger was married on this day in 1947, wearing a dress made from the nylon parachute that saved her husband's life.

Maj. Claude Hensinger, a B-29 pilot, was returning from a raid over Japan in August 1944 when his engine caught fire. When he proposed to Ruth after the war, he offered her the material from the parachute that saved him.

She worked with a seamstress to create the bodice, and used the strings on the parachute to shorten the front of the dress and create a train in the back.

The dress was also worn by their daughter and by their son’s bride before being donated to our @国立アメリカ歴史博物館.

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