Jill Harness
Duct Tape Queen of Hearts Dress
by Jill Harness - October 14, 2009 - 12:20 PM

Duct_Tape_Queen_Of_Hearts_by_DuckTapeBandit

Many of you have probably heard of the duct tape prom dress scholarship, but this Queen of Hearts dress brings the concept to an entirely new level of detail. Everything, even the laces on the corset and her scepter are made of the sticky, fix-it-all tape.

The dress was created by an artist on Deviant Art (she’s also the dress model), who makes all of her imaginative creations out of Duct Tape and justifiably goes by the nickname Duck Tape Bandit. Some of her other designs include flower corsages and purses –perfect accessories for your duct tape prom dress. She even has a pair of Duct Tape flip flops!

See Also: Miss Cellania’s Duct Tape Prom Photo Round-Up

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Comments (12)

  1. Impressive – that alone should get her into the design/art school of her choice.

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 10-14-2009 at 12:38 pm

  2. I’d love to see close ups of the details…

    posted by OkieMelissa on 10-14-2009 at 12:40 pm

  3. Actually, on the website, the artist says the laces are actually ribbons.

    I’ve always wondered how much you would sweat in one of these – not a breathable material, that’s for sure.

    posted by Ranger J on 10-14-2009 at 12:48 pm

  4. Very pretty – and the dress is cool, too.

    Let’s see the folks at Project Runway do something like this!

    posted by Steve from San Diego on 10-14-2009 at 1:55 pm

  5. Cool, but where did she find duct tape that wide? LOL Fabulous idea though!! Is it still considered duct tape if it’s a piece 6 feel tall??

    posted by Carla Brown on 10-14-2009 at 2:10 pm

  6. I’m the original artist of this dress, thank you for posting it <3

    http://www.ducktapebandit.deviantart.com

    posted by DuckTapeBandit on 10-14-2009 at 5:04 pm

  7. @Carla: to get big pieces you have to layer the tape on top of itself. It takes a long time and a lot of skill to get the tape to lie flat.

    I’ve made many duct-tape wallets… complete with a clear tape ID pocket. They last a long time and they’re a great convo piece.

    posted by Amy on 10-14-2009 at 11:33 pm

  8. WOW, that’s amazing. Very well done DuckTapeBandit! Steve from San Diego – I was just thinking the same thing! New project runway challenge!

    DTB – are the different colors the original color of the tape, or did you paint as well?

    recaptcha: weep sympathy (just a tad depressing…)

    posted by Hastings on 10-15-2009 at 1:02 pm

  9. @Hastings
    Thank you :)
    All the tape on the dress is the colour the tape comes in.

    posted by DuckTapeBandit on 10-15-2009 at 3:10 pm

  10. It’s called tape fabric you layer 1/2 peices next to each other in the desirered width and hight and make a gaint square to work with still one that large(if its one peice) is EXTREMELY hard

    posted by Cody on 2-19-2010 at 3:53 pm

  11. uhm this is fruckin awesome as hell i’ve been looking at duck tape clothes for bout an hour now lol and yours is def the best

    posted by Bryceeee414 on 8-13-2010 at 7:54 pm

  12. im very impressed. i’m being the queen of hearts for halloween and am trying to make the same thing, not with duct tape though :)

    posted by Kaisa on 10-18-2011 at 10:15 pm

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