Elizabeth Rasmuson: Gum Wrapper Prom Dress Made By Iowa Teen (VIDEO)

FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS:

GARNER, Iowa — An Iowa teen is all bubbly over her one-of-a-kind high school prom dress she made out of gum wrappers. Elizabeth Rasmuson made her dress – and matching vest for her date – out of blue and white wrappers from Wrigley's "5 gum." The high school junior says she got the idea after hearing about someone making a dress out of duct tape.

She and her boyfriend began collecting gum wrappers last August. Rasmuson says she quit counting after 200.

Since the wrappers break easily, Rasmuson finished her dress with a vinyl top coat.

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Information from: KIMT-TV, http://www.kimt.com

Comments

[MindyC]

12:14 PM on 04/15/2010

Very cute - great idea and she pulled it off beautifully. Now, note to Elizabeth, stand up straight and proud! That last shot of you in the video - your shoulders curled forward in the "teen skulk" really takes away from not only the beauty of your creation, but the beauty of you!

[LarryinMiami]

08:28 AM on 04/15/2010

To the mother: Is that a hairDO or a hair DON'T?

[TheEasyIndian]

08:57 PM on 04/13/2010

That's awesome. I made a dress strapless dress out of garbage bags as a joke for my prom, but didn't have the guts to actually wear it. Kudos to her for going for it! www.theeasyindian.com

[BonzaSheila]

11:41 AM on 04/13/2010

Aw... that's cute, and clever, and impressive.

[Willow207]

10:52 AM on 04/13/2010

Does anyone here remember the gum wrapper "chains"? I remember making them, and some were sooo long!!! ha

We must have been terribly bored teenagers!!!!

[ruffmama]

08:25 AM on 04/14/2010

YES! I used to love to make them with Fruit Stripe (the fruity gum with the zebra on it) wrappers!

[shuffleoff]

10:40 AM on 04/13/2010

Okay HuffPost...this is when it's time for a big, blown up photo...where's the love??

[erinker]

10:39 AM on 04/13/2010

Very impressive. I think this young woman has a future!

[NoMercy]

10:37 AM on 04/13/2010

Great ingenuity! That's the kind of girl I would have dated in high school.

Now my wife and I still make our clothes out of found objects... but we're happy.

[uglygnome]

10:13 AM on 04/13/2010

New contestant for next season's "project runway"!

[scarletxoxoxo]

10:04 AM on 04/13/2010

I like it:)

[fasty]

09:55 AM on 04/13/2010

Awesome. What great ingenuity.

Distressing to see a good creative kid do something cool and people STILL troll the post badmouthing them.

[FPhoebe]

10:30 AM on 04/13/2010

It really is disturbing that people are so nasty about something so innocent. I wish I had that much creative initiative to make something like that; it probably took forever! I know there is a scholarship for making the best duct tape dress-maybe there should be one for gum wrappers :)

[NoMercy]

10:36 AM on 04/13/2010

Some people must have learned that only negative comments bring them attention. It must be a childhood trauma.

[StAlphonso]

09:40 AM on 04/13/2010

And her date's tux was constructed from empty Skoal cans.

[YLS2007]

09:19 AM on 04/13/2010

My girlfriend once made me a scarf made out of merino wool. We never got any press coverage for it, however.

[kareemachan]

10:38 AM on 04/13/2010

Gee, that's so inside the box, too!

[joeblow]

08:20 AM on 04/13/2010

Love the dress, honey! But what happened to all your teeth? Oh, yeah. It wasn't sugarless gum, was it?

[RTFanatic]

09:07 AM on 04/13/2010

Um, Wrigley's 5 IS sugarless.

[joeblow]

02:52 PM on 04/13/2010

I only read the headline, that the young woman made her dress out of wrappers. And, because I don't chew gum, the only sugarless gum I know about is Trident...if it's still even being sold.

Maybe a gum scholar/expert can help me out.

[kannita]

07:42 AM on 04/13/2010

Cute dress!