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Newspaper Dress


Nukaya

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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.

 

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And shoes:

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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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Looks like the news are all over you ^^

 

Besides this is probably the most original idea I've seen for a costume in a long time :D

 

Lol. I got one comment of "Finally! There's something interesting in the newspaper!" which was slightly awkward, but made me giggle at the same time.

 

And, thank you! :)

 

-Nukaya

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Very nice, and very original.

 

I think I refrain myself from saying a newspaper pun. :P

 

:P

 

There were quite a few newspaper puns that became associated with that dress....

 

-Nukaya

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Great dress, if I didn't bring your attention to my attention of it before.

And random looks from strangers are always fun.

And you won a bike from it? That's pretty awesome.

 

-CF

 

Yep! My school had a costume contest and first prize was a bike. Well-worth those couple of weeks working on that dress in between classes and trying to even figure out how to make a dress in the first place.

 

-Nukaya

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This totally reminds me of that Garfield strip where Jon makes a newspaper suit which melts off in the rain. XD

 

Ha! :lol: I remember that one. I was kind of worried that it would rain, and even though it's not a long walk from my dorm to our dining area, that would have not been fun (but, luckily it didn't).

 

-Nukaya

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