Bin Bag Dress

Another one of the 10 dresses that i made was a combination of bin bags and a floral charity shop skirt. I made many dresses out of bin bags, recycling bags... anything that was free! This thing kept ripping but luckily i could simply tape it back together! if only all clothing could be fixed like that! I particularly like this dress because of its nature to rip, and move and change every time i put it on!

This next dress also incorporates bin bags. The pink dress is a nightie from.... a charity shop! i didn't like the pretty, delicate look of the dress, it was also rather big and long and very tacky.... So i destroyed it! throwing paint at it and tarnishing it with a pumice stone was a great stress reliever especially as this was the 8th dress i had made and by this time the pressure was beginning to mount! The lace is from a haberdasher and cost 18p from their bargain bucket. The dress cost 30p, and the bin bag and embellishments were all things i had lying around! this was the cheapest dress out of my collection.

These two dresses are still on display at Norton Radstock college where i took my art foundation Diploma along with the A1 sized photographs which are posted on here.

This Saturday i worked at the Bristol Graduate fashion show, i turned up on the day expecting to be a model dresser. One of the models phoned in sick and next thing i knew i was on the catwalk! scariest thing of my life! Pictures to come...