Rightly so, Elizibeth Rasmuson of Garner, Iowa, got quite a few attention wearing a gum wrapper prom dress to her annual high school soiree. Anyone creative and committed enough to fashion an elegant evening gown from gum wrappers, also as have the discipline to collect them, deserves a little positive notoriety. The dress would be even more amazing if she actually chewed all the gum, which we don’t really know.
A lot to chew on: Gum wrapper prom dress
Rasmuson’s gum wrapper prom dress is a piece of fashion that could even win over the likes of Donna Karan. Jordan Weaver, Rasmuson’s boyfriend, helped her to gather gum wrappers in August of 2009. Weaver also made a gum wrapper vest 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.
Just the beginning with the Gum Wrapper prom dress?
Although a gum wrapper prom dress is quite a few work by itself, Rasmuson might consider next making a gum wrapper chic fashion accessory such as a purse. Creative individuals make purses out of candy wrappers, wrapping paper, magazines, soft drink labels and even food wrappers. All it takes is a simple weaving technique that originated from Mexican paper weaving.
Unique art as gum wrapper dress
When labeling just what kind of art weaving a gum wrapper dress would fall into, it is easy to see it as tramp art, or otherwise called prison art. In fact, on prisontalk.com you are able to read about an ex-con named George Vargas, who learned how make picture frames by folding cigarette packages into chains of rectangles that might be threaded together. He did it to pass the time of his 60-day sentence for heroin possession. After leaving the joint, he learned how to use Mexican weaving to make some instant money by turning snack bags into handbags. After cutting the bags into strips, he would fold and hook them in a way that would create dizzying patterns out of bar codes. Puffy, cloud-like designs emerged from the popcorn pictures on Smartfood bags. Cheetos were turned into bent blazes of yellow and orange. Imagine a Vargas gum wrapper prom dress.
Using gum wrapper prom dress as a pay day?
Rasmuson may be led into a bright future with fashion after her gum wrapper prom dress. Vargas’ Prison Art creations contain designer handbags that sell for as much as $ 200. He’s using the skills he learned in prison to establish a trust fund for his daughter and support substance abuse prevention programs in his hometown. With college slowly getting more costly, Rasmuson’s gum wrapper prom dress can be an excellent way to make cash now, or to pay for her education – unless she gets rich building an empire on her own.
Sources for the article
prisontalk.com
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-99481.html
