dresses online Azalea belle to wear grandmothers 1968 wedding dress - StarNewsOnline.com Posted: 29 Mar 2019 09:00 AM PDT Phyllis Lindsey gave her wedding dress away in the 1980s; 30 years later, her granddaughter will wear it as an Azalea belle WILMINGTON -- For thirty years, Phyllis Lindsey's wedding dress hung in a bag in Kay Godwin's Azalea belle dressmaking cottage. She handed it over in the 1980s, unsure of what would come of the dress she'd worn 50 years ago at her Dec. 21, 1968, wedding. All she knew is that it would get more use in the hands of her seamstress friend than hanging in her closet. "There was no sense in its laying around," Lindsey said. "I hadn't taken any special care of it, so I told Kay she could use it any way she needed to." Godwin didn't touch it, even though it was on her mind as the Azalea belle s trickled in and out her shop every year. She just waited, figuring th...