crepe paper

Spotters first toss crepe paper streamers down to gauge the wind — the most important variable in parachuting.

A vast roll of pleated crepe paper unfurled across the runway, unveiling not merely a prop, but actual pleated garments once snipped apart.

They wrapped a telephone pole in strips of crepe paper — red and purple, his favorite colors — and attached star-shaped balloons.

Then he handed me three crepe paper flowers, one red, one white, one blue.

Using crepe paper, my mother, Constance Williams, and a handful of girls made flowers and dresses in preparation for Havre de Grace Colored High School’s May Day celebration in the late 1940s.