Staci Bernstein
The white outfit top combined layered translucent plastic bags over white plastic for a sheen. I macraméd the sleeves from opaque grocery bags and twisted winter ornaments into the neckpiece.
For the bottoms, I pressed a bath scrubber flat to work like tule so I could trim it with more of the winter ornaments. The bottoms are three layers with shorts made from a compost bag providing coverage.
Valkyrie
The headdress is made from an oatmeal carton, Amazon packing material, the guts of an expandable garden hose, brown plastic grocery bags and a broken set of wings.
The Valkyrie top is made from soaker hose guts, more Amazon packing material, the outside of the expandable garden hose with detached arm pieces made from a doggie's cone of shame.
The skirt is more of the same mostly the expandable hose, paniers from the cone of shame and finished with Amazon packing materials.
The Valkyrie
Zephaniah
During the pandemic, we have had groceries delivered and haven’t been able to reuse our shopping bags, so I made the outer “feather” layer of the skirt from these. The foundation of the train is made from a plastic tarp left when our beekeeper had to empty a flowerpot to remove the wasp nest underneath and from a section of heavy-duty seamless paper previously used as a photo backdrop. The upper half of the skirt is predominantly a rug stay with the waistband and Velcro repurposed from a tripod case with a plastic cap for the button. I had some Amazon packing material left from my other garments and sewed these together with part of our broken lawn chair to make the bodice. More of the grocery bags made the decorative garlands.
Model: Sarah Hanso
Photographer: Staci Bernstein
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