I totally forgot about this! Woah! This is the newspaper dress that I made for Halloween 2009 that I mentioned ages ago but then forgot to post photos of. Unfortunately, this is the only picture I have of it, but it gets the general wackiness across.
And shoes:
The inner lining of the dress is made of a old cut-up shirt and wire held together by safety pins because I don't have a sewing machine and struggle with sewing in a semi-straight line. If I had an ounce of sewing talent and a sewing machine, I'd probably have added a zipper on the side, but I ended up just doing a sort of corset cinching style stringing to hold it together.
The actual paper is held together by glue and packaging tape. The shoes are just my only pair of heels that I own that I ended up spending a day or so shredding newspaper and then taping each piece to the shoes (which you can kind of see around the heel part). This was particularly fun, as I ended up working on the shoes mostly during my shifts in my school's art gallery where I work, so there were a lot of confused/bemused looks from gallery visitors. I'm thinking of putting a coat of sealant on them and keeping them how they are, just because they're so quirky.
Oh, and folding all the individual parts for the bottom portion of the dress was FUN. I kept finding random inky fingerprints all over my room from the ink for about a week and I had oodles of fun scrubbing them off the walls.
I like this dress. It helped me win a bike. And having a bike that actually works makes me happy.
Mosaic! Tell your friends! Tell your cat! Keep that interest going!
(and 194 days until BrickFair!!!)
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