Recycled Clothing

February 21, 2011 |  by  |  Art, Geek, regular  |  Share

Recycled Clothing

Plastic Bag Prom Dress by Casey Hansel, who is only 18 years old and a freshman at Lehigh University. She has made dresses, shoes and purses out of caution tape, newspaper and garbage bags, pull tabs, balloons and more. This dress is made from purple trash bags wrapped around aluminum pull tabs. 

Back of Plastic Bag Prom Dress

Dress made entirely from purple and black plastic garbage bags and aluminum pull tabs from soda cans. 2009

Plastic Bag Coat

Jacket made entirely from plastic grocery bags and plastic bottle caps as buttons. 2009

Balloon DressBalloon Shoes

Film Canister PurseNewspaper Dress

Dress made from newspaper, duct tape (for the button holes), and black plastic garbage bags. 2011

White Plastic Bag Dress

Caution Tape Dress

(Source: artistswanted.org)

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2 Comments


  1. I love these dresses(: she is very very talented! I have one question though, I wanted to make a dress out of that red and white tape stuff, but I can’t find a nice style. The competition is in 3 weeks so i dont have much time!

    Well done.

  2. i love these dresses(: she is very very talented! i have one question though, i wanted to make a dress out of that red and white tape stuff, but i cant find a nice style. the compitition is in like 3 weeks so i dont have much time!

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