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August 14, 2009
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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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~DuckTapeBandit Jan 25, 2010  Professional Artisan Crafter
No, lol I work for duck brand duct tape as their official duct tape artist so I'm not eligible for the contest that and I'm 23 now lol.
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~some1lovesyou1417 Jan 26, 2010  Hobbyist Artist
THAT'S AWESOME :) well I'm Stephanie an I'm 15 and i have been working for about 4 or 5 months on a design for a duck tape dress sense i found out about the contest, and next year when i am able to go to prom, ima win ...so can you tell me anything about the contest like the rules or how they judge or if you NEED a partner or if they even do it at my school?????
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~DuckTapeBandit Jan 27, 2010  Professional Artisan Crafter
Well I think they are working on altering the rules this year and I'm not totally sure what they are but they will probably be posting them up on the website soon www.ducktapeclub.com and it doesn't matter if they do it at your school or not its a nation wide contest so all you have to do is submit a picture and a description to the contest website. A piece of advice though (that almost no one seems to follow) just submit a simple picture of you and your date (if they haven't changed that part about needing a date) wearing your duct tape attire, don't add pictures around the edges with detail/upclose pictures. I hope I'm making sense :)
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~some1lovesyou1417 Jan 27, 2010  Hobbyist Artist
o cool well yeah your making a lot of sense but the one thing that doesn't is i went to the website and read this 'Employees of Sponsor, their family members, and persons living in the same household as employees or their family members are NOT eligible.' what does that mean ...um can i send you a picture of my dress and "date" (i say "date" cause "he" is either going to be imaginary or a chick) first before i submit it to see what you think...or is that considered cheated...I'm going to submit a picture to DA any way so what every but it won't be for a while ...well thanks for the advice
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~DuckTapeBandit Jan 27, 2010  Professional Artisan Crafter
You know what I'm not totally sure what I'm allowed to see as far as the dresses go because I was a judge last year and I'm not sure if they'll have me judge again this year. I guess I'll ask them since a lot of my watchers on DA are entering the contest.
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~SithcamarowsPadawan Aug 20, 2009
its is totaly awesome

for the video
you should put it thrue a time laps
so we can see you making it super fast
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~DuckTapeBandit Aug 20, 2009  Professional Artisan Crafter
I don't know who is going to be editing my video I think some people in new york are doing it for me.
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~SithcamarowsPadawan Aug 20, 2009
oh how cool
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~shippo162 Aug 19, 2009
As per always, it looks gorgeous and hot. ;__; I'd never live through wearing duct tape. >__o
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~DuckTapeBandit Aug 19, 2009  Professional Artisan Crafter
Aww thank you :)
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