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COVID-19 robbed her of wearing her wedding dress, so she put it on to get her vaccine
Take that COVID-19. People all over America, including the Fargo-Moorhead area, are celebrating getting vaccinated by putting on party clothes they didn t get to wear last year. 6:00 am, May 7, 2021 ×
Sarah Studley, 39, is one of many people choosing to mark vaccination day as a day of celebration by dressing in special occasion clothing. Studley wore her unused wedding reception dress when she got vaccinated at the M&T Bank Stadium Mass Vaccination Site. Photo courtesy: Richie Stever/University of Maryland Medical System.
WINONA, Minn. It s hard to know just how many prom dresses, wedding gowns and sequined stilettos were packed away in the back of the closet in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic proved the ultimate party pooper, causing the cancellation of special occasions all over the planet. But some recently vaccinated individuals are getting the last laugh by throwing
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I’ve reached that part of the pandemic where I live in muumuus, athleisure is now fancy, and I don’t remember jeans. I know my newfound style is not unique these days, so when I saw someone wearing a sequined evening gown on Twitter, it was a shock.
She wasn’t a celebrity primping
at home for the Golden Globes, so where could she be going? Turns out she was getting all decked out for the best possible reason: her COVID-19 vaccine.
I reached out to the woman in the picture, Ashlie Atkinson, and she told me by phone she had bought the long green dress pre-pandemic to wear to a later-canceled 2020 gala for her roller derby league. When I asked her why she wanted to dress up to get the shot she said, “I just wanted to celebrate the joyousness of the occasion and I wanted to bring some joy to people who have been working long hours.”