aerogram

British conceptual designer Hussein Chalayan created the "Airmail Dress" in 1999, which collapses or expands, depending on your point of view, into or out of a standard blue aerogram; the resulting breakdown between a human being and an envelope is funny, and disturbing, and rather touching.

Disposable Fashion as Permanent Art 2009

In view of our precarious position and the lives of men in jeopardy, I sent this evening an aerogram to H.M. King George asking for a relief ship.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

When he got back to his office he found an aerogram, which read as follows:

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

When they had come close enough to make us out at all, Kantos Kan's operator received a radio-aerogram, which he immediately handed to my companion.

The Gods of Mars 1913

Helium had been notified by radio-aerogram of our approach.

The Gods of Mars 1913

He could scarcely read that aerogram to the commission.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

The man stepped obsequiously forward and presented a message, for all the world like any ordinary aerogram.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

"Well, I guess that's all right, gentlemen," said Mr Parmenter, as he handed the aerogram across the big table littered with maps, plans and drawings of localities terrestrial and celestial.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

Just as they were beginning to think about breakfast one of Lennard's assistants came down from the observatory with a copy of an aerogram which read:

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

Such news as reaches us comes entirely by despatch rider and aerogram.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881