Wedding and Evening Gowns From Recycled Materials
As promised, here are a few more selections from the Artyculture Fashion Parade held at our recent Field Days. These were some of my personal favourites.
Wheat Wedding
This wedding gown is made from wheat and flour bags. Baling twine has been used to secure it together and the bride carries a bouquet of dried wheat.
Carcass Couture
This garment was inspired by bones. The main bodice is made with netting and chicken wire and adorned with appropriate bones. The main feature of the handbag is a foxes head.
Carcass Couture - Rear View
Don’t you just love the use of this backbone?
Peacock Allure
This garment was inspired by peacock feathers and uses fly screen, silver insulation, peacock feathers, net and second hand buckles.
Elegantly Tubed
This evening gown has been fashioned entirely from bicycle inner tubes.
Elegantly Tubed - Rear View
Note the delicately stamped detail on the bottom of the dress.
Stuck Up & Dried
This dress has many MANY dried rose petals carefully stuck onto flywire. Isn’t it stunning?
Wedding Wrap
I had to save the best for last. This dress is absolutely STUNNING and I’m in awe of how much work must have gone into making it.
The petticoat is made from silver wine bladders while the actual dress is made from layers of shrink wrap. The bouquet droplets, jewellery and droplet detail on the dress are also made from silver wine bladders.
Wedding Wrap - Rear View
More silver wine bladder droplets in the hair decoration and an unknown amount of shrink wrap and hours of work in the detail of the dress. You could almost wear this to an actual wedding, although you wouldn’t want to get too close to a fire or heater!!!
I hope you’ve enjoyed this little glimpse into the handiwork of the Artyculture parade. I was absolutely stunned at the amount of creativity and work that must have gone into fashioning these garments.
The wedding dress from shrink wrap was definitely my favourite although I also REALLY liked the rose petal dress and the gown made from inner tubes is simply stunning.
Which would you choose as your favourite?
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wow! They are incrediblely creative!! Amazing handwork and imagination to come up with those!
This must have been a lot of fun to see! I personally think they are all pretty cool (except the carcass one - that is one I could do without - yikes) but I bet the first one is the most comfortable and I like the dried bouquet.
that was amazing.
very clever and great use of recycled items
love it
Wow they are stunning. I really like the evening gown made from bicycle inner tubes.
Thanks for showing these, since I didn’t get there to see the parade I’m glad you did!
I love the bike tube dress the best, or maybe I just wish I could like like that in that dress! Or any dress! The shrink wrap wedding gown would have to be a close second. I’m a sucker for a meringue wedding dress.
Oh, definitely the Rose Dress and the Wedding Wrap. the Bone Dress looks interesting too. While the inner tube dress looks stunning, I think it might be uncomfortable to actually wear one. Sweaty I think. I do think that all of the designs are really creative and I’m amazed that children so young can do this.
Oh the inner tube dress for all! But they are all amazing and so creative! I also loved the coke can one and plastic bag one from the other post.
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