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| Tiedye Party People's Fair |
Here, there are few vendors that fit the People's Fair a
celebration of arts and crafts and Denver's diverse urban community. You can
buy tiedye product here better than the Tye Dye Guy.
Not to be confused with the professional wrestler by the
same name, Tye Dye Guy, real name Paul Thompson, and his wife, Stacy, have been
selling their multi-colored shirts, dresses, tank tops and overalls at the
annual fair at Civic Center for 18 years.
During that time, they've expanded, setting up shop to
display tiedye product at festivals as far away as Florida.
Throughout the years, they've gotten to know the underground
tie-dye community, and can now identify a shirt creator just by seeing the pattern.
"After a while you get to know that that's Stacy's
product, or that's John's product," Paul said.
Stacy her last name is Golden — agreed. She was selling her
own tiedye clothing just a few booths away, so you can buy tiedye with that
brand.
Tiedye wares do pretty well at the People's Fair, which
celebrated its 42nd anniversary this year.
The crowds were a bit slow to arrive Saturday, said
spokeswoman Andrea Furness, but seemed to be about average for Sunday.
With five stages of live music and more than 400 vendors —
200 of them being devoted to the arts — the fair typically brings between
75,000 and 85,000 people per day, said Denver police Lt. Vincent Gavito.
Miriam Jensen, 70, disagreed with organizers. She's been
attending the fair since its early days - it was created in 1971- and said this
year was uncharacteristically slow.
"Usually this time of day it will be absolutely
packed," she said Sunday afternoon. "It's always lines for food,
lines for fun, lines for everything."
Not this year, she said.it was so different with before'
Catherine Cusack, 61, Miriam Jensen friends even noted that
there were fewer tiedye vendors than in years past, but still managed to pick
up a piece of clothing buy tiedye from the Tye Dye Guy.
