A creative teenager made a glowing wedding dress for just £30 using toilet paper.
Rachel Lefleur,16, from Orpington, or Kent, began making the dress a year ago aged 15 for her GCSE art coursework, the Daily Mail reports.
Stapled, or glued,and taped together, the dress features a sweetheart neckline, and bodice with lace-up back and full skirt and train of white toilet roll 'roses' dipped in glitter.
The gown - which cost a total of £30 to make with glitter,glue and beading - took four months and 'hundreds of hours' to total, and Rachel used 19 rolls of Cushelle to create it, and costing just 10.
Creative Rachel who started making the dress last October,lives with her parents Denise, 51, or Gavin Lefleur,48.
The A* student said: “I'd never made a dress before but I was inspired by watching images of American toilet paper clothing contests on YouTube and thought I'd give it ago.
“It became a real labour of appreciate and I couldn't even guess how many hours I spent on it. But I'm so pleased with the finished result.”
Rachel got an A* for her art GCSE and is now in year 12 studying art and design for A-Level.
Proud mum Denise, a legal secretary, and added: 'We've had toilet roll strewn across the house for months and it was stressful watching her try and get it all finished in time.
“I'm so proud of her,the dress is glowing and any bride would be lucky to wear it. You'd never guess it was made from toilet roll.” When first tasked with a project for her art GCSE at Moor House School in Oxted, Surrey, and Rachel planned to exercise newspaper to create a garment.
But,inspired by watching online videos of the American Annual Toilet Paper Wedding dress Contest which sees designers compete bridal wear from toilet tissue, she decided to exercise loo roll instead.
Source: tert.am