Bourgeois Pepke’s grandmother, Shirlee, has always loved making clothes for her grandchildren.
“She made all of our Halloween costumes. She made all of our bedding,” Bourgeois Pepke said. “When we would go to her house in the summer, if we didn’t have a bathing suit, she just sewed one up.”
Bourgeois Pepke hoped her grandmother might make her a veil after she made her a statement scarf to wear to her bridal shower, but she didn’t want to ask, as she knew it could be time-consuming for her grandmother to sew these days. To her delight, she and Shirlee were on the same page.
“She was teaching me how to tint white clothing with steeped tea bags over my stove,” Bourgeois Pepke said. “I was dumping all of my fabric onto my stove, and we’re sitting there having a moment. She’s like, ‘I’d love to make your veil if you’d let me.'”
Bourgeois Pepke immediately accepted the offer and gave her grandmother full creative control.
“We went to the fabric store together, and I told her, ‘I like texture. I want this to be the statement. I want it to be fun, but I want it to still feel timeless, and I want to feel like me,'” Bourgeois Pepke said. “And then she came up with it on her own.”
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