Wearing a gum wrapper prom dress to her annual high school soiree has garnered Elizibeth Rasmuson of Garner, Iowa, many attention, and rightly so.
Anyone creative and committed enough to fashion an elegant evening gown from gum wrappers, as well as have the discipline to collect them, deserves a little good notoriety. We do not know whether or not she chewed all that gum but if she did, the dress is even more amazing.
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 also showed up in a gum wrapper vest for himself. As reported on dailypostal.com, the idea began after making a jacket of wrappers last year and after that she decided to be unique with her dress for prom also.
Is the gum wrapper prom dress just the beginning?
Although a gum wrapper prom dress is various work by itself, Rasmuson might consider next making a gum wrapper chic fashion accessory such as a purse.
Those who have a creative streak make purses out of wrapping paper, magazines, soft drink labels, food wrappers, and candy wrappers. all that is needed to do it is a technique of weaving originated by Mexican paper weaving.
Gum wrapper prom dress a unique art form
When labeling 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. 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 how to use Mexican weaving to make some instant money by turning snack bags into handbags. He learned how to cut and fold the pieces together to create patterns out of bar codes. He learned how to make cloud-like designs from the popcorn pictures on Smartfood bags. Cheetos packages were bent into bright blazes of orange and yellow. Think about a Vargas gum wrapper prom dress.
Gum wrapper prom dress: a big pay day?
The gum wrapper dress made by Rasmuson might lead her into fashion. For as much as $ 200, you are able to get a designer handbag from Vargas' prison art.
He is using the cash made from this skill he learned to head a substance abuse prevention program in his hometown and to start a trust fund for his daughter. With college slowly getting more costly, Rasmuson's gum wrapper prom dress may be a fantastic way to make cash now, or to pay for her education – unless she gets rich building an empire on her own.
Resources
prisontalk.com
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-99481.html
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