Cardboard and Paper Prom Dress

[FSogol]

Cardboard Prom Dress Is Just The Right Fit For This Young Woman
by Mark Memmott, NPR

Why did Missouri teen Maura Pozek make her prom dress out of cardboard and paper bags?

Because after fashioning the previous two years' outfits out of Doritos bags and soda can tabs, "I had to top myself somehow."
Maura Pozek in her latest creation.
Steve Pozek (her dad)

Seventeen-year-old Pozek, a high school senior from Reeds Spring (just northwest of Branson), told NPR's Melissa Block this afternoon that it took "lots of hot glue" and some late-night last-minute alterations to make the dress work. Her original idea to construct it all of corrugated cardboard wasn't going well. With just hours to go, she made the skirt from paper bags. The top remained cardboard. All of it was painted.

Rest of story and photo here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/24/151295590/cardboard-prom-dress-is-just-the-right-fit-for-this-young-woman

[Little Star]

1. Very creative and also pretty. That gal's got some talent. k&r

[MADem]

2. I love it when kids do stuff like this. Every year they have a contest with duct tape, and

the kids make tuxes and dresses from the stuff. The winners get some decent money, too!

I liked the one made from soda pull tabs, too--that is one talented young woman!

[applegrove]

3. Wow. Very talented.

[Skinner]

4. Wow! What a creative young woman!

Check out the slide show at the link. It shows all three of her prom dresses, including can-tab dress and Dorito bag dress. Very cool.

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. She said her creations are just hanging in her closet. Maybe the museum in Seattle

would like them: the Seattle Science Fiction Museum has a great exhibit of clothing made from human artifacts, among other amazing rooms!

[Papagoose]

6. Looks better than a lot of the dresses at my daughter's Prom

I actually was embarrassed by some of the girls that we were around while taking pictures pre-prom.

[1monster]

7. Every year, the fashion design academy at a local school has their students make dresses out

of newspaper, paint, and other materials. The students turn out some really nice and interesting deigns.

[AlbertCat]

8. Project Runway anyone?

Every season, usually the 1st challenge, is to make something fashionable out of decidedly non-fashionable stuff. I bet I can find pics...

Once they had to get their materials from the grocery store. (a dress made of corn husks won)


Once from stuff in their hotel rooms (one contestant made a beautiful dress out of coffee filters)


Once from the Hershey's candy shop on Times Square




Once from an automotive supply place (amazing stuff! a coat made from weaving together seat belts, the winner was of leather seat covers)


Once from the city recycle depository



Once from a flower shop



and so on.

I hate reality TV... except for Project Runway. Everyone.... even the 1st to be eliminated, comes up with amazing stuff. It's NEVER about destroying someone, like so many other Reality contests are at the start of their seasons.

[Initech]

9. How about diapers:

[AlbertCat]

10. and of course, flip flops

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[secondwind]

11. This girl is going places.. IMHO... I wish her luck!

[WillParkinson]

12. Quite creative!

Loved the soda tab one.

[BDize]

13. I went to school with

a girl who wore a dress made from Handi Wipes material. Much to the boys' disgust it didn't fall apart halfway through the day.

[FSogol]

14. My lab partner in college made her own jewelry out of hardware, fishing gear, and electronic

components. It was extremely cool.

(Welcome to DU, BTW)