by Jen Harper
Photo: KIMTI wore a purple lamé dress to my junior prom, which I
attended with my best friend, Jessica, because we were both too dorky to
actually have dates. (Sorry, Jessica, I should just speak for myself. I was too dorky, and Jessica was my faithful best
friend. Thank you, Jessica. And thanks for driving us in your mom’s car.)
Anyway, I’m stoked to see that shiny fabric is still in for prom—wait just a minute. That’s not fabric. It’s a gum wrapper. A shitload of gum
wrappers.
Yep, high
school junior and proud Iowan Elizabeth Rasmuson, inspired by all the duct-tape prom
creations, did a little extreme DIY-ing and created her prom dress and her
adoring (see picture for just how adoring), shaggy-haired date’s vest out of 5—the brand, not the number—gum
wrappers. Though I was a bit disappointed to hear that she’d sealed the whole
recycled deal with a vinyl topcoat (Umbra would be even more
bummed), I’m proud of her for daring to be different and also believing in
another of the three R’s—reuse…of the word “like.”
“We started collecting, like, the specific colors, like,
at the very beginning of the year,” says Elizabeth.
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