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Shirlette Thompson: From Trash to TreasureShirlette Thompson's fashion idea popped her in the head like a rubber band.
She was doing her sister's hair one day and noticed the mound of rubber bands surrounding her feet. She envisioned an evening dress made of rubber bands. Simple, but yet so elastic.
Nga Dinh had a vision, too.
It was a wedding dress made of white plastic bags tied meticulously together in rose pattern. The layers of the dress draped along the floor and crunched nicely the way fresh plastic does.
The women, both fashion design students at Houston Community College, let their creativity run wild for the school's recent annual Flash and Trash fashion show.
Their ingenuity leads me to believe that we have it all wrong.
Instead of searching for the coolest styles in the best fabrics, maybe we should take a nod from fashion students like those at Houston Community College. Their annual Flash and Trash fashion event shows us that a lot of creativity and trash can go a long way to creating fashion. The students use almost anything -- from leaves to macaroni to Sweet 'N Low packets -- to create their designs.
Of course, this trash-as-treasure concept isn't new.
We've had a variety of trendy recycled fashions in recent years: seat-belt purses, bottlecap belts, fleece jackets made of recycled plastic pop bottles, and, of course, clo
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