Here in Yukon the community uses red dresses to remind people of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. It is part of the reconciliation between indigenous and settler cultures.
The red dress has become the symbol of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Jamie Black, a Métis artist in Winnipeg, first introduced it. It was through her REDress Project where she first gathered red dresses and exhibited them in Winnipeg to represent missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls.
https://www.jaimeblackartist.com/exhibitions/
One of my friends is part of the indigenous employees group at YG and helped to organize a free Zoom course to teach beading on fabric. And free kits of all the ingredients to make the little red dress. We spent a pleasant day chatting and working on our dresses. I still need to do an edging, but it is done enough to wear on May 5th if I don’t succeed at the bead edging. The bead colours on the bottom of the dress represent the colours of the medicine wheel and one of the flags of Canadian indigenous people. The picture shows the white as blue - it’s actually white!
I added an edge finish today.
A single row of black beads along the edge of the fabric. I think it finishes it well. It still looks like a beginner effort - but I like it.
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