Touch of Vanity

The Paper Gown
YES All Paper!

wow, I'm thrilled it got on DD's
even if it's not the best photo of the dress

I'm glad You all like it ^-^

as for some answers:
*YES, IT's ALL Paper- every part of the dress-the strings are paper too,
*YES, IT's wearable, I had to pin it down so it wont move or get damaged on the mannequin,
*YES, I plan to make a real dress [in the future]
*NO, I never went to a Fashion School, pity

*AS for requests if anyone could make that in to a real dress,
****I HOPE NO ONE STEALS MY DESIGN****
your free to make a dress inspired with mine,
I get my inspirations from other artists but Never copy,
Seriously PLEASE don't steal my Design
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in detal of the Project:

The Collar:
the Rose took only 5 min to make, and 1 hour to dry
the paper strings took 3 days-to hand roll in swirl and than to glue-in together, bout 16 meters of paper string just on the collar;

The Under Dress:
took 1 day to pin up and glue-sculp, and whole 2 days to dry up stiff, 3m of carbed-tule paper ussed;

The Corset:
took 2 tries with mesouring up, 30min to glue up all the lace and left for the night to dry, then half and hour to lace up with the paper strings and position in place;

Skirt:
took 3 days to prepair, cut and pin-glue on the base belt;

whole dress was put together in few days - the drying of the glue was taking the most of time - I recomend a dry and well vented room


the details:

*6 kinds of paper:
-paper strings - hand rolled paper tulle - 25m long in total;
-corset- pure white 240lb smooth paper - hand free cut and sculpted dry;
-rose- white 120lb paper - free hand ripped and sculpted with water based glue;
-skirt- pure white 260lb smooth art paper- hand cut, sculpted freely and glued in on a carton-paper-belt base;
-under-skirt dress- paper carboned tule- hand sculpted with water based glue- dried stiff;
-under-skirt belt[unseen]- carton belt- hand cut and sculpted as base for the skirt;
-paper mache-as additional glue and covering sculpts


*3 kinds of glue:
-water-based technical glue - elmers glue recomended;
-styrolep-poliestyren glue -[carefull-can make paper tern yellow if not handelled properly]
-simple quick dry glue stick- for handeling tule paper:


*Polistyren manikin
*160 cm heigh
*the dress is size: S us ; 34/36 eu,
*the manikin is A Cup in bust size