Wearable Art: Dress made of Spoons || Dragon scales DIY || Stephanie Oplinger || recycled gown

A video compilation of the Spoon Dress project. I wanted to create a gown of spoons and use the spoons to create a dragon scale looking effect. The dress ended up weighing something like 15 lbs on it's own!
I (Stephanie Oplinger) designed, sewed, drilled, glued - and overall created - the dress as well as modelled it for the pictures.
Courtney Lotz gave an extra set of hands to help me glue on every single individual spoon, and she was the photographer for the photoshoot.
I'll be creating a more in depth behind the scenes explanation for this dress soon in another video. Please be sure to subscribe and click the notification bell to see it first!
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[@agatedavis4391]

I’m going to create something similar for my prom dress next year. It’s going to be made completely with plastic spoons I’ve stolen from my school over the past couple years. It’s going to be a pretty simple design with a slit on the left side. My last little screw you to my school lol

[@StephanieOplinger]

That's going to be awesome! I've had some problems with movement in the dress and spoons falling off using only hot glue, but I've found that using JB Weld helps to hold the spoons on in the areas that get them most strain (around the closures and along the boning), and they make a plastic version that will keep plastic spoons permanently bonded to each other for around neckline areas. I hope maybe that might help some during the making of your prom dress! I hope yours turns out super great, that you have a smashing time at prom, and that you get that last memorable 'screw you' moment, lol. :)

[@JustABEAN-uf4kt]

Damn... that's impressive

[@StephanieOplinger]

Thank you so much! 🙏🤗

[@SW-bz7je]

So freaken beautiful

[@StephanieOplinger]

Thank you so much!! 🙏😁

[@lovekillergirlthejoker1724]

This is amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@StephanieOplinger]

LoveKillerGirl The Joker Thank you!! I am so glad you think so

[@mariamasanyang4410]

This is so great . What was the spoon drilling for tho

[@StephanieOplinger]

Thank you so much! 🙏❤ The drilling was to spooth the edges for the final top row around the neckline.

[@TheMidnightSerenade]

I love this! Could you sit in this or not?

[@StephanieOplinger]

Thank you! Nope, not able to sit in it.

[@blaueskuchen409]

there is something that I don´t understand. Did you saw the spoons to each other? or did you glued them to the dress so you had them possitioned where you wanted them and then you sew them to the dress?

[@StephanieOplinger]

I didn't sew anything except for the under dress. All the spoons are hot glued onto the fabric. I originally drilled holes into each individual spoon to sew on each one, but it wasn't enough to make it lay right (and I also didn't have the time to sew each one). The underdressed is made of a sheer fabric, so the hot glue held fantastically.

[@fuchshunddesigns9757]

i do hope you tried to do Wow, grrl!

[@StephanieOplinger]

Thank you! 🙏❤ I was planning to try and enter this year. 😁

[@Dulce--11-h9u]

you´re a fucking genious!

[@StephanieOplinger]

😮 Ooh, wow, thank you so much!!! 😅😁🤗

[@georgebarry4619]

You should enter this for the 'World of Wearable Arts' (WOW) competition held in Wellington, New Zealand each September! Check it out on You Tube!

[@StephanieOplinger]

George Barry This is my first time hearing of WOW. I will definately check it out!! Thank you! 😁

[@minusmimik8622]

George Barry I agree you stand a good chance of getting it on stage! maby even winning!

[@StephanieOplinger]

@@minusmimik8622 Thank you so much! I somehow missed your comment, so I am sorry for my late reply. But your vote of confidence means so much, thank you! 🙏

[@chrisjacksonuk]

👍🏿👊🏿

[@StephanieOplinger]

🙏😁

[@ryder.3730]

what kind of fabric did you use?

[@StephanieOplinger]

B the great Just a sheer curtain fabric with corset boning for the understructure. 😊