Trash Bag Fashoin

Have extra grocery bags laying around? Are you interested in fashion? Here's a step-by-step on how to turn your plastic trash into a fashionable dress! We are high school students and we will teach you a simple way to turn your TRASH INTO TREASURE!

Materials: 3 white trash bags, 2 clear trash bags, 10 grey plastic bags (grocery bags), old jewelry, old beads, old springs, fabric glue, hot glue, scissors

Step 1:

• Cut bottom of white trash bag off
• Put it around the manikin, singed part at the top and tie it tight (this will be the base for the dress)
• Staple the extra material in the back to make the dress tight
• Repeat for a second layer to make it more sturdy

Step 2:

• Repeat step one with a clear trash bag to finish off the base

*This step is optional, but helps to bring the base together by flattening wrinkles, and covering the yellow coloring of the singed top*

Step 3:

• To make the neck line, take another clear trash bag,
• Connect the two ends together and staple together (top of trash bag to bottom of trash bag)
• Put stapled trash bag around bust
• Twist into infinity loop
• Put front loop over the head, around the neck
• This should create a cross in front for the neck line

Step 4:

• Take your grey plastic bag and a pair of scissors
• Cut fringe out of bags that are about 3-4 inches long
• The fringed should be cut in the shape of a tall, thin isosceles triangle with a pointy tip
• You will need A LOT of these to create layers of fringe on your dress
• Avoid cutting out words, you want to make sure all of the fringe is solid grey

Step 5:

• Take fabric glue and apply it to the top end of the fringe pieces
• Attach fringe to dress starting at the bottom
• Put each row close together (the rows should cover entire front half of the dress)
• Fill up entire front of the dress with fringe except for the white cross neck line

Step 6:

• Take old jewelry and get creative!
• This is an example of the decoration we added to the neck line with a combination of old jewelry, beads, and springs
• We attached our design to the dress with hot glue
• You can add any design you desire

Step 7:

• Take a step back and examine your dress
• Are there places that need more fringe? Any falling off jewelry? Anything that needs to be glued down or cut off?
• If not, enjoy your dress and be proud of all your hard work!
• Congratulations! To transfer it to someone body, cut straight down the back and staple it together on the person. You turned plastic into fashion, you turned TRASH INTO TREASURE!