High School Student Creates Runway-Worthy Prom Dress Using 80 Rolls of Duct Tape

RAPID CITY, SD (KOTA/Gray News) – Some girls dream of finding the perfect prom dress, but a South Dakota high school student made hers out of duct tape and won a college scholarship because of it.

Like many high school seniors, Victoria Schoenherr searched the Internet for scholarships to help pay for college. She came across the Duck Tapes Stuck at Prom scholarship contest and sent the information to her dad. The next day, she had rolls of duct tape waiting to be transformed into an award-worthy dress. KOTA Reports.

Schoenherr's dress, which took over 160 hours of work and 80 rolls of tape to make, was a finalist in the competition and won the Runway Worthy Award. Her dress was deemed the most avant-garde by the judges.

To make her dress, the high school student was inspired by the 18th century French Rococo style, Barbie and Tim Burton, according to the competition websiteShe wanted the dress to be both glamorous and as big as possible, so big that it wouldn't fit through door frames.

I think I made a 10-foot by 5-foot panel because I had to make all this fabric. I pleated it and tried to make a skirt out of it, and it didn't work. I made a completely different set of sleeves, and it didn't work. So it took a lot of destruction and research, Schoenherr said.

She worked through her prom, designing costumes for a production of Guys and Dolls, and even by candlelight during a storm to make the play what it is. She says hearing positive feedback from others and seeing her dress on TikTok made it all worth it.

A lot of people seem to really like it, which makes me very happy, Schoenherr said.

This isn't Schoenherr's first time designing costumes, having previously designed costumes for several stage productions and her own wardrobe, and she says it certainly won't be the last.

“I’m very project-oriented. I consider myself a border collie. If I don’t have a project to do, I start eating furniture, like I need to do something. So I can totally see myself doing a big, silly project at some point,” she said.

Schoenherr plans to attend the University of Northern Colorado. As a runner-up in the competition, she won a $1,000 scholarship and earned an additional $1,000 scholarship for her Runway Worthy title.

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