If you ever wanted to flush your wedding dress, designers at the 11th annual Cheap Chic Weddings Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest are giving brides the option.
The competition, held in conjunction with Charmin, challenged people to design a wedding dress completely made from toilet paper.
They have to use Charmin toilet paper. Any kind of tape, any kind of glue, and they can use needle and thread, explained contest co-creator Laura Gawne.
No closures, no Velcro, nothing. No attachment of fabric, nothing, added co-creator Susan Bain.
Bain and Gawne, are sisters and started the competition as a way to promote their wedding site, Cheapchicweddings.com.
For the first time, the runway show and contest was held at popular Manhattan bridal store Kleinfled and the winner will have their design turned into a ready-to-wear dress.
Ten competitors from around the US were brought to New York for the show and Donna Pope Vincler of Brentwood, Tennessee, walked away as the winner and $10,000 (£6,284) richer.
Its quite an experience to work on something. And then my daughter was the model and that means a lot of me, and my mom taught me how to sew when I was very young, so its like the three of us. And the design on the dress has three pedals, like an appliqué and that kind of stands for the three of us, the three generations, she said.
Vincler said it took her roughly three months to construct the dress and used 22 rolls of toilet paper and lots of tape and glue. The top hat is made completely from toilet paper and the look features a removable train and jacket.
She added: Its amazing how strong glue and toilet paper can be. Actually, after I made it I was hitting on it like a drum because you can play it. Its like, its very sturdy. And its just all toilet paper, sort of like if you were going to papier mache something. And so, I dont even know how many layers I just did it till I thought it would stay together.
