Fashion Statement Made By Gum Wrapper Prom Dress
Rightly so, Elizibeth Rasmuson of Garner, Iowa, got a lot of attention wearing a gum wrapper prom dress to her annual high school soiree. Being creative and disciplined enough to collect wrappers and fashion them into an elegant gown is something that deserves a little notoriety. We don’t know whether or not she chewed all that gum but if she did, the dress is even more impressive.
Gum wrapper prom dress: a lot to chew on
Rasmuson’s gum wrapper prom dress is fashionable enough to impress even the likes of Donna Karan. Rasmuson and her boyfriend Jordan Weaver began collecting gum wrappers in August 2009. Weaver had a gum wrapper vest that he made for himself. As reported on dailypostal.com, the idea started after making a jacket of wrappers last year and after that she decided to be unique with her dress for prom as well.
Gum wrapper prom dress: just the beginning?
Even though it was already a lot of work to create a prom dress out of gum wrappers, Rasmuson might next consider making a chic fashion accessory such as a purse. People who are creative will make purses out of food wrappers, soft drink labels, magazines, wrapping paper, and even candy wrappers. all that is needed to do it is a technique of weaving originated by Mexican paper weaving.
Unique art as gum wrapper dress
Prison art, or Tramp art, is usually what weaving a gum wrapper into a prom dress would be fitted into. On prisontalk.com you will read about George Vargas, an ex con, who learned how to make picture frames with cigarette packages by folding them into chains of rectangles and threading them together. He did it to pass the time of his 60-day sentence for heroin possession. After leaving the joint, he learned to use Mexican paper weaving and would make snack bags into handbags for extra cash. By cutting the bags into rectangular strips, he figured out how to fold and hook them together in a way that created dizzying patterns out of bar codes. Using the popcorn pictures on Smartfood bags, he learned how to make cloud-like designs. Cheetos were turned into bent blazes of yellow and orange. Think about what it would look like with a Vargas gum wrapper prom dress.
A pay day from the gum wrapper prom dress?
Rasmuson might be led into a bright future with fashion after her gum wrapper prom dress. For as much as $ 200, you can get a designer handbag from Vargas’ prison art. He uses the skills he found in prison to make a trust fund for his daughter and to support a substance abuse prevention program in his town. With college slowly getting more expensive, Rasmuson’s gum wrapper prom dress might be a great way to make money now, or to pay for her education – unless she gets rich building an empire on her own.
Sources:
prisontalk.com
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-99481.html
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