The poppy also honors hospitalized and disabled veterans who hand-craft many of the red, crepe paper flowers. Making the poppies provides a financial and therapeutic benefit to the veterans, as well as a benefit to thousands of other veterans and their "This beer tasting festival offers the chance to sample international and craft beers at three different session times a "one-of-a-kind grassroots menagerie of crepe paper float makers, homemade costume fashionistas, marching bands, gigante puppeteers Highlight: Elsa Schiaparelli’s “Phoebus” cape in shocking pink crepe is haute heaven A German-made World War I “austerity corset” is crafted out of twisted paper, a cheaper, possibly more comfortable, alternative to a pink classic. .
Gallery of crepe paper crafts:
