The first dress I ever made...

...weighed a TON! Pretty much since it was the first dress I ever made, I was just playing it by ear because this whole duct tape thing has been pretty much self taught. I don't use patterns, I don't sew things, I just tape.The skull belt was added to this one just to break up the stripes and is not duct tape. Basically, this is how it all started: I made a solid grey duct tape dress, then covered it in Funky Flamingo and Aqua. Right before the concert, I also added a chrome star burst on the bust and cut out the words "Men Women And Children" and stuck them around the bottom. This is not one whole dress but rather two pieces. This thing was THICK! I had at least 4 layers of duct tape and let me tell you, duct tape on duct tape already has the tendency to act cone-like, so this was a mega cone. I did get to meet the members of Men Women and Children (unfortunately they are no longer together) and they signed my dress.

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Since this dress, as you can probably tell, everything has spun out of control.

It's been a crazy ride thus far...

Hello all,

So it's been a week and a half since Ingenuity which was a blasty-blast and now I'm just starting to get resettled into my old life. Prior to Ingenuity we (as in myself and Fashion Week Cleveland) had been having weekly photo shoots and it was just crazy. It was a ton of fun but also pretty much turned my world upside down for a while. I was making new dresses, some of which we not even worn at Ingenuity because of lack of models, trying to attempt to drive to and from Kent a few times a week, and be an honors student with 18 credit hours, work, and assisting 2 classes. It really put my system into a state of shock and I am just now in the recoop phase. I am going to try and cut back on the extra "stuff" for now and focus on my classes. I may continue to do dresses but on a much more scaled back way. I hope to be back up and running ASAP.

Sarah "Sadie" Nedbalski