Cheapest Dress Ever?
Karina from Virginia sent me some pictures of her art project. The project was called “Wearable Art”, and Karina made a dress out of ramen packets. It took 196 packets of ramen, and some chop-sticks to construct! No word on what grade Karina received, but it looks like “A” work to me.
I figure that a 10 cents per packet, and some free chopsticks with take-out chinese, you could make this dress for about $20. That’s not counting the “worth” you get from eating all the ramen.
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March 10th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Very cool and imaginative. Way to go kid. I think its fashion design for you — forget interiors….. hugs, us
March 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
First it fed students, now it clothes students! Truly, ramen is the wonder food!
Now, someone just needs to figure out how to build houses and cars of the stuff, and we’ll all be able to live forever on nothing but noodles. Hallelujah!
March 12th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
That dress is hot! The hat.. not so much.. but I’d totally wear the dress, maybe even in beef flavor. No probably not.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
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April 17th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I wonder if she chose for color or flavor.
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April 26th, 2007 at 5:07 am
This was truly a brillant idea. Not only does it appear as an actual dress, but also the culture behind it. She has a very artistic and beyond her time fashion sense. I pray she does well.
April 26th, 2007 at 5:09 am
She is both artistic and ahead of her time in fashion.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Woo00 I’m glad you all like my dress ! =)
@Grid: No, I didn’t go for a paticular flavour. Sams Club only carried the Chicken flavour in such a great quantity =D So I had to go with that. But I had around 5 packets of other flavours, which I used to make those little flags on top of the chopsticks
May 15th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Karina,
I’m working on a magazine I would love to us eyour dress for it. Is it for sale? I’ll make sure you get a credit blurb for it also!
Jed
williston101@hotmail.com
May 19th, 2007 at 7:51 am
I hate to break it to you, but having attended an (unnamed) art school in North Texas for like six semesters now, I’ve seen like six ramen dresses in the halls at the unconventional-material-wearable-thing time of the semester. It is true, however, that yours (minus the hat, sorry) is the best I’ve seen.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:45 pm
@Jed: Sorry, the dress isn’t for sale ! But you’re welcome to use the pictures to feature it in a magazine
@CMO: It doesn’t really matter that you’ve seen like 6 Ramen dresses in the first place. I don’t attend North Texas art school, so I wouldn’t know that this idea was already used. I’m glad that mine was the best you’ve seen though.
And I happen to like the hat =P
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:58 pm
She should use 2 empty cup ramen for the top. Or maybe she will save that for a ramen swimsuit
April 13th, 2008 at 5:13 am
wooooooooooow that is really nice dress, i would like to wear such one
August 30th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Well done for blowing the whistle on scammers. I am so glad you posted this
Thanks a lot
January 19th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Wow….. what a dress its seems to be a different one and quite attrctive..
February 4th, 2009 at 7:00 am
This is an awesome idea, just think what design you could come up with walking around your local supermarket.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:59 am
WoW that makes me hungry lol but not only dont it look good on you but u look good 2!!!! ya tu sabe mamii
December 21st, 2009 at 1:51 pm
COOOOLLLL………..ur very creative……..i really liked it…………!!!!!!!!!!!
July 27th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Stumbled on this great article while surfing the internet and by no means found any interesting write-up like yours. Truly loved the way you wrote this and I just love the dress.