Helen Draper designs a dress recycled out of old postcards and throw-aways

Fashion designers usually think out-of-the-box, to an extent that some of them create some designs from pure trash! Helen Draper, a Preston university student, has drawn out some pretty startling designs that use stuff you’d toss in a trash-bin. Using old postcards, train tickets, photographs, doodle-strewn scraps of paper and just about anything she could lay her hands on in her own cupboard and flea markets, Helen designed this dress, a perfect way to recycle. She went down to a stall at the local flea market that had on sale old postcards with different handwritings written out by people that she used for the dress. For finishing touches, Helen used a piece of lace left behind by her late grandmother.

Now not a lot of you would wish to be caught dead in a dress like this, taken that you’d be mistaken for a tramp. It is however a perfect example of recycling and the innovative ways in which old throw-aways can be put to use!
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