Toilet Paper Dresses: Canadian Designers Turn Paper Into Stunning Couture (PHOTOS)

The material may be bizarre, but don't hold that against these exquisite garments. Let's face it — the final destination of toilet paper has never been so glamorous.

Made out of white and pink bathroom tissue paper, over a dozen Canadian designers created some dazzling gowns and cocktail dresses for a breast cancer fundraiser runway show sponsored by toilet paper company Cashmere in Toronto last week.

There was even an outfit or two for men that hit the catwalk with tuxedo stripes.

While some designers purely stuck to toilet paper, others reinforced their designs for added stability by using suit fusing— a product that helps give suits shape and structure to reinforce their pieces.

"They were also allowed to add other materials like rhinestones, tulle and ribbon – just no feathers or fur to the garments," said a Cashmere spokesperson in an email to The Huffington Post.

Of course, this isn't the first time a dress has been developed from this material. In March, AOL covered the toilet paper wedding dress competition where designers created quite a collection.

Now if only they could recreate Kate Middleton's Sarah Burton lace wedding dress...

See images of the runway show featuring the White Cashmere Collection 2011.

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Comments

[jon777or333]

10:29 AM on 10/10/2011

BTW, that is recycled toilet paper!

[usamade]

09:52 AM on 10/10/2011

Toilet paper is more expensive that silk these days ;)

[theroundearth]

11:21 PM on 10/09/2011

Is this Beyoncé pregnancy outfit?

[TaxpayingVoter]

11:11 PM on 10/09/2011

That chain-mail looking one is just spectacular.

[RoadRevolution]

09:15 PM on 10/08/2011

Guess if they go to the bathroom with those outfits on, they will never have to do what Elaine did in Seinfeld, and say...".Can you spare a square????"

[Denise Hoo]

09:03 PM on 10/08/2011

They did that idea on Project Runway a long time ago

[henery]

08:39 PM on 10/08/2011

I think I see a couple pieces with skid marks on them.

[GraniteSkyline]

08:30 PM on 10/08/2011

My cats can make dress/pile like that out of toilet paper in less than two minutes!

[LXIX WITHU]

07:41 PM on 10/08/2011

Gee...That's funny...That dress looks like it's made from toilet paper.

[zrivers13]

07:14 PM on 10/08/2011

I would be singing rain rain go away the entire time i'm wearing that dress but pretty cool idea.

[Jamal Alexander]

06:13 PM on 10/08/2011

Is it one ply or two? You can't tell these days.

[sponsi]

05:01 PM on 10/08/2011

I don't see a problem with it as long as it not used toilet paper.

[emlr]

01:43 PM on 10/08/2011

IO knew immediately it was TP. So obvious.
Oh well, you'd never need to worry about no TP in restrooms.

[GraniteSkyline]

08:30 PM on 10/08/2011

But you do have to worry about people snagging a piece of your dress in the bathroom!

[emlr]

03:13 PM on 10/09/2011

LOL!! And I love your bio!

[dickn2000b]

12:56 PM on 10/08/2011

The tagline read: "You Won't Believe What Dress Is Made Of" Wanna bet? The first thing I said was Toilet Paper! WHY? Because the HUFFPOST trainwreck seems to be fascinated by anything made out of TP. This tagline has been used at least a dozen times by the HUFFPOST HACKS and the answer is always Toilet Paper...SO no surprise there. I also could not help but notice their much overused word "STUNNING" in the story headline. They seem to love this word both as a verb and as an adjective. I'm surprised, however, that they didn't somehow work the words "High Slit" into the story, but I suppose that term in conjunction with toilet paper would have been too much.

[Katbird]

02:50 AM on 10/08/2011

Meh. They had pet wee-wee pad couture on Project Runway.