Prom is known for glitz and glam, billowy clothes and the best elegant use feasible.
But scholar Monica Walsh’s prom gown is a bit unconventional, it’s made of duct tape.
She’s one of five winners in the Duck Tape Stuck at Prom award battle, an international competition.
The battle offers the chance to earn scholarships by allowing students to create and present their own homecoming wear made entirely of duck tape.
Walsh has a chance at $15, 000 in article- secondary fellowships and is the only Canadian winner selected.
Walsh stated that she enjoys working on different jobs and is a creative people.
When her mother brought the dress up to her, she assumed she wouldn’t have enough time to make it.
“I was like, ‘That’s a great idea, but I don’t think I have enough time. And therefore I went to bed, slept on it, and I was like, yeah, I may create a duct tape outfit,'” said Walsh.
From start to finish, it took her 126 days and 13 rolls of duct tape to make the clothing, which was inspired by arts from actor Romero Britto.
“It’s piece, like, vivid pop art, and it has dark details on it, a very bright bottom of the dress, and it has like a light top separating it and then it goes back to bright again”, said Walsh.
I narrowed down my options to do something unique and different out of the ordinary because I had a couple of patterns in my mind. I had like three design ideas, and then I didn’t actually sketch it out or anything. I started putting pipe tape on pieces of fabric when I kind of had it in my mind.
Walsh noted that many people find it to be very artistic and that the response from the public has been really positive.
While it is a imaginative cloth, Walsh said it’s not the most pleasant as it’s made of duct tape, and storing it has created a unique problem.
“I tried to hang it up, but it started scrubbing the duct tape off. It kind of occupies its unique spot on my living room’s floor to keep the duct tape smooth.”
Walsh said she needs people’s votes to win the Duck Tape Stuck at Prom battle to have a chance to win the $15, 000 award reward for institution. The challenge is still open until July 10.
“It may think a lot to me,” he said. “I mean, it may pay for a lot of my teaching induce $15, 000 American…is a bunch.”
People can vote on their favorite paintings through July 10th.