"anything goes but clothes"

Breaking News: My 21st birthday is Sunday, February 26th...
(send cake and BIG presents)

Let the all weekend party begin! I, being a college kid, and in the name of "youngins" everywhere, need to make this birthday a 3-day event.

Starting tonight!

Night one is a little 'get together' thrown by one of my nearest and dearest friends in this city. The theme is "anything goes BUT clothes" (no, to any hormone-driven 13-yr-olds who may have stumbled upon my blog, that does not mean a party full of attireless college women). What this means is that every guest must make their outfit from anything they desire- anything, that is, other than "normal" clothing (ie t-shirts, jeans, tank tops, ect...)

Now, anyone can throw together a plain and uncreative outfit- but the ultimate purpose is to make that trashbag look good!

(I look like something out of the "Derelique" fashion show)

My outfit consist of two main parts, the top and the skirt. The top is a black trashbag, fitted to be worn as a tube top. I cut out the bottom, pulled the handles out at the top so it tightly fit above my bust, then tied them together in the back. I then wrapped and pulled the bottom of it so it was snug all the way down to my hips. I tied the excess plastic off in the back with a normal hair tie, and curled it under the back.

The skirt is made completely of newspaper. I starter by cutting the elastic waist off of an old pair of spandex shorts. Next I shredded a few pages of newspaper the long way, and ripped those in half. I then stapled the strips just below the elastic waistband, making it into something that resembled a pleated skirt. (It's a little noisy, but it works!)

To top the outfit off, I took my old black top hat and wrapped one of the strips of newspaper around it (so it's not EXACTLY normal clothing). I also made a bracelet (not shown) out of another strip, and topped the whole thing off with my black pumps.

It's dressy, creative, fits the criteria perfectly- and looks great! I'll post pictures of other people's creative ideas tomorrow!

If anything, I consider this theme as practice- if we can make this trend work, we can make anything work! I love "outside the box" (or rather, "out of the trash") fashion!