Bad Cafe Chefs: My Paperdress look for t2 spotlight

This is going to be a very special post. Something that gave me the confidence to face new things, to take up new challenges, and most importantly to listen to my heart.

Designers Inn- that little game gave me new dreams. I faintly remember since my very childhood, this was one game that I have always loved playing. Like any other child, I too had little dreams that were far from reality. And each time I won this game, I felt to be step closer to my final goal of being a fashion designer. I still feel if I wouldn't have been an economist or wouldn't have racked my brains with science (that's still the punishment in Indian societies for scoring well ;P), I would have definitely been a fashion designer having my own fashion house. Ah! Well that was just childhood days I feel, may be my inherent love for crafts has been driving me all this while. Who knows?

Very recently, after all this years when I had nearly forgotten this dream and had moved ahead, life had a new but pleasant challenge for me. We had a t2 fashion show in our college. Honestly, am not a person who loves participating in such fashion shows. Neither am I into modeling, (although a thousand people have suggested me so). Don’t know why but I never liked it.
It so happened that now my friends were very excited to participate in this fashion show and I just thought, if not now than never. After all, we were in college, the best period in one's life, and I didn’t want to grow old not having tried something that was suggested by so many of them. So finally, I thought of giving it a try. Since t2 was one of the most famous Indian daily newspaper, so we thought the theme "papers" would go well with the event.
What more, we all racked our brains day and night for weeks to make the best possible dress. We all were aspiring microbiologists and economists. A topic like fashion designing was unheard off. This was totally a new experience. Our only resource to learn things was none other than Google. (We were all Google students that time :P). Surfed internet, watched videos, scanned through magazines, blogs, and what not, all in search of ideas. The worst part was we never knew if a particular idea would work until we have started working on it. It was very time consuming and required passionate dedication. My house would be filled with newspapers everywhere. After weeks on slogging and hard work comes the day. We came up with our unique paper dress, stunning everyone around. That moment was really special. The fashion show turned out to be good, but the designing part was the best. I felt like an actual designer for the first time, designing a dress and being my own model. The only difference was that we had used staplers and cellotapes instead of needle and thread. We were all decked up that day trying hard to show fake confidence. (we were actually praying to keep our dresses in place and avoid any mishaps on stage. That time I really thanked god, for putting me into a girl’s college). Someone has rightly said “fake it, till you make it”. We all looked confident on stage and everything went as planned. The audience was seeing a different and a much creative version of ours, they had never imagined before. The show went on well and we came with flying colors- much confident and creative than before. Loved it!!

Since this a crafts blog I’ll try to explain each step of how I made my dress, and some paper jewellery to complement my look. I never thought I would be writing this so took just few photos in between the steps, but don’t worry once you have the idea it’s very easy to make. If you any queries you can refer to my contact page. Happy creating..

Fold the newspapers in the form of a cone, use 1 full newspaper for the long cones and half a newspaper for the small ones. Take a long rope and start stapling the long and short cones alternatively on it. This would look something like this