Tips On How You Can Come Up With Your Duct Tape Prom Dresses

If you thought duct tape prom dresses is some kind of a practical joke, well, there are a remarkable number of reports which will serve as testimonies to this statement. To give you an illustration, there are a lot of college students who are going for duct tape prom dresses to create a ripple at one of the most important days of their college days - the prom night. Cool as they are, duct tape dresses are not a very startling discovery or a concept. And with all the vibrant and bright colors, duct tapes are available in, it surely adds a wacky effect to your closet, even if for a few days!

In fact, those who manufacture duct tapes, announce prizes and scholarships corresponding a prom night for the best prom dresses designed using duct tape, and you bet they are lapped up with glee by the students! Basically, once you have the form for the prom dresses made from duct tape, you can easily make good duct tape prom dresses. So if you are thinking of flooring someone at a prom night by a unique dress, here are some interesting stuff for you.

Prom Dresses Made of Duct Tape

Here are some tips on how you can come up with your duct tape prom dresses. You are sure to get a fleeting glance by the others at a prom event!

• You cannot progress, if you do not decide upon the pattern, so start with choosing a pattern and colored duct tapes for the duct tape prom dresses or a dress you want to make.
• If you have a pattern in your mind, just sketch it down. Or look up some patterns in a styling book or on the internet.
• Then, hunt an old dress or a t-shirt and a shirt to prepare the duct tape dress form.
• In case you want an alteration in the neckline, shoulders or sleeves, just cut the appropriate areas of the fabric.
• Iron the fabric and put it on a sewing form. If you have a friend helping you out, well, nothing better than that. He or she can help you model the clothes as you go along attaching the tape, in case a form is not available.
• Next, at the bottom of the skirt or the dress hem, wrap the duct tape and tuck the extra beneath the garment and attach it neatly and firmly by pressing it.
• Keep on wrapping the duct tape horizontally, till you reach the waist area. While adding each extra line of the duct tape, make sure you align the seams. For attaching the duct tape to the garment properly, press the tape evenly.
• Follow this by cutting a slip at the back of the top of the waist to facilitate the removal of the garment.
• Then cover the slit nicely with duct tape of the same color when you wear the dress. Press the additional tape in its place, and tuck the extra inside the garment.
• Just above the waist on the dress or bottom of the t-shirt, wrap the duct tape horizontally. Again press the tape firmly.
• Take the sleeve area of the garment and place the duct tape vertically and then make sure that each section of the tape is pressed adequately.
• Next, at the back of the garment, cut a slit. But remember to cover the slit with a duct tape before wearing the garment.
• Now a plain dress would not create a jazzy and stylish impression, when it comes to your duct tape prom dresses. So bend the duct tape into a diamond or flower for embellishing the dress.

Fairly simple, isn't it? Dresses of duct tape can be really innovative and stylish, if you are sporty enough to sport a different look!

Duct tape prom dresses can be made in various ways, this was just one way to make a duct tape prom dress. Another simple method is by preparing a large swatch of the duct tape fabric. Then you can trace a pattern on it and cut out. Just as these are easy to make, it should be kept in mind that these tapes cannot be stretched, so the measurements should be precise. And using some fabric along with the tape for the prom dress, would avoid mixing of sweat (if at all you sweat) with the adhesive of the duct tape. And lastly, creativity knows no bounds! Sky is the limit - you can fiddle with duct tapes in as many ways as you want and uses of duct tape are absolutely amazing!

So, are we all set for taping up oops, I mean gearing up for the prom night with duct tape prom dresses!