May 16 2011
New Dress Use: Jeep Soft Top

A few weeks ago I received a nice note from Shannon Willits – a fellow survivor of divorce who had relocated to Tucson and had visited my blog. He said he liked what I was up to and suggested I use my ex-wife’s wedding dress as a patch for a damaged screen door . . . a fine idea. I thanked him for dropping a line and sending his suggestion and wished him all the best. He replied the next day with another idea for the dress – a bikini top for a jeep. I frickin loved it and planned to do it – after all my buddy Ellis owns a Jeep. I thanked Shannon again – told him his idea rocked and that he could expect to see it on my website. I also told him had he suggested it a month earlier I would have put it in my book. Then Shannon sends me a picture of his Scrambler and volunteers it for the cause.

I’ve mentioned before how cool it has been to hear from a lot of divorcees through this blog of mine. Over the weekend I got to meet a nice guy and cruise around in his Jeep with the wedding dress soft top. He was a big fan of the wedding dress top and pointed out its advantages. He liked that the dress allowed quite a bit of light through without the heat of direct sun. He was also pleased after we drove off that a hole in the dress allowed him to use the rear view mirror (that wasn’t planned). And because a wedding dress can be compressed fairly small (I haul mine around in a compression sack), he thinks it would be easy to carry on in the jeep at all times and strap it on when the sun becomes overbearing.

I also met Shannon’s fiance Tara who was very nice and helped with the pictures. They are leaving town soon and I wish them all the best and really appreciate their help with a great application for a wedding dress. If you own a jeep and have a wedding dress (or an ex-wife’s wedding dress) parked in your closet doing nothing you should strap it on top and go for a ride.


    6 Responses
    • LOL…..this seems a little strong…..I will leave the dress to my daughter.

    • Hey LG O’Reilly – Thanks for the comments. You are very observant. The dress did get painted a little while back and the contemporary artwork application is going to be in my book. My book is going to have a bunch of dress applications that aren’t on my blog. The artwork one turned out great. I framed the whole thing and hung it on my wall.

    • Hi. Where did all of the coloured paint come from? Did we miss one? Love to see it. Cheers, LG.

    • Very quirky! I love it Kevin.

    • hey kevin!
      awesome make shift sun roof!
      genius

    • Lisa Yakaitis

      ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!! Love it Kevin. You are truly one of my heroes when it comes to making a bad situation like divorce BEYOND hilarious!!! I am going through a divorce right now and your website keeps me at least from going insane with all of his ASSANINE filings!!! Who knew I’d have gone to High School with a SUPERSTAR!!!! Good Luck with everything.

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