Wednesday, January 27, 2010
People Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" Fashion Statement
Posted by Vance Lauderdale on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:28 PM
- Delores Weaver in 1957
And when his hit movie Jailhouse Rock came out in 1957, at least one Memphis woman was so bedazzled by the jailhouse fashions that she designed a rather special shirt for her daughter, as shown here. An accompanying news clipping from the old Press-Scimitar explains:
JAILHOUSE BLOUSE
Delores Weaver, 10, wears prison stripes to be like Elvis. A fifth-grade student at Colonial School, Delores designed her blouse, even down to the prison number from Elvis' prison garb in his new picture, "Jailhouse Rock." Her mother, Mrs. G.M. Weaver, carried out the idea with needle and thread. She can rock and roll, too."
I'm not sure that sending your child to school dressed like a prisoner is the best way to motivate a youngster, but what do I know?
What I would like to know is: Where are you today, Delores Weaver?
And what happened to that shirt?
PHOTO COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS LIBRARIES
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No less than the celebrated composer and musician Leonard Bernstein said, "Elvis Presley was the most important cultural force of the 20th Century."
Now this century too feels his presence, as the famous Elvis Concert opens in the UK and Continental Europe and Ireland.
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haha interesting. I am curious as to what the other kids said or did when she showed up to class in that? It is cute and now it would be fine, but I wonder back then.
I must agree, kids back then were evil teasers, not that they aren't today. But that wacky style of fashion would have been accepted with today's children. But I guess she must have been an outcast for numerous doubts of her whereabouts.
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Elvis was going to be in Portland Maine and died just before that concert. I was a kid and that's how I learned about him. It would be fun to have a group dress up and have a dress up King for halloween.
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