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Duct Tape Dress IIIby ~DuckTapeBandit

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This is made out of duct tape just like all of my art. I was asked by my work, Duck Brand Duct Tape, if I would make a dress for them to wear to New York to promote The Stuck At Prom Scholarship contest. I came up with a few designs and they liked this one the best although the original design for the dress was strapless but the bottom ended up being too heavy and risked falling off of the model so I had to add straps. The entire making of the dress was filmed and I'm not sure what the really plan on dong with it.

The photos of the dress were taken at about 2-3am in my backyard which happens to have an excess of apple, peach, and pear trees. I felt really bad for the model since it took about 30 minutes for me to lace her in and out of the dress.

Dress design, construction, and photography: Me
Model: Rae Mears

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Critique by ~r51 Dec 28, 2009, 11:48:21 AM

Let me first say that the design of this dress is classic-fantastic. It has a sophisticated, evening gown feel that is just what you would want in a formal dress such as for a prom. The ruffle at the top and bottom of the purple layer are also extremely well done - with your medium being something that is generally designed to be rigid, having this sort of soft shape is quite a feat.

With that said, I do have a minor complaint, and that is in the color combination used in the main dress and what form up the "underskirts." I know that your palette is restricted by the medium (though from what I've seen as your watcher, it's growing all the time. However, I'm not sure that these three colors in combination elevate the dress from novelty item to something that more people would be beating on your door to get in the future. Maybe it's just that I'm pretty minimalist myself, but I would be looking more at doing this all in a solid purple, or in purple/white/black, or even just white/black to really dress up the design a bit. No big knock there, as I'm sure you had plenty of good reasons for doing what you did - just a personal preference.

With regards to the photo, I think this did pretty well on something that had to be hard to shoot in the environment. I'd suggest possibly having more indirect lighting in the future to help calm down the brightest spots of the reflection from the flash.

Your model looks great in the dress, by the way - she could model for me any time.

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~Miyori999 Mar 31, 2011

wow, wasn't the dress hot and heavy? Its pretty and I know my school does it for scholarships, but wasn't it a bit hot?

~mikuelove100 Mar 11, 2011

cool

~Girgirl2012 Jan 17, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

wow... that is a lot of duct tape. even enough to hang my sister/ friend on the wall......again (friend was for a lock in challenge)

~zebrastripe000 Dec 8, 2010

xD cool

~DuckTapeBandit Dec 9, 2010 Professional Artisan Crafter

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~ianm79 Nov 10, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

That is awesome - looks fabulous

~DuckTapeBandit Nov 11, 2010 Professional Artisan Crafter

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~some1lovesyou1417 Jan 23, 2010 Hobbyist Artist

how did you make that and is it actually all ducktape

~DuckTapeBandit Jan 23, 2010 Professional Artisan Crafter

Kinda of hard to tell someone how you made an entire dress out of duct tape in a comment on DA lol. There is a sped up video of me making the dress on a website (I can't seem to remember the name of it now since this all happened last year) but I've been sewing for about 15 years so it was fairly easy to construct a dress from duct tape. This is my 3rd or 4th duct tape dress(I've made quite a few) and yes, it is all duct tape.

~some1lovesyou1417 Jan 25, 2010 Hobbyist Artist

cool did you win the scolarships

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