Dress to im-Press! Wolverhampton art students make newspaper dresses in just one day
Stunning dresses made entirely from newspaper have been created by artistic students at a Wolverhampton school.
Staff at Wolverhampton Girls' High School challenged students to design and make ball gowns from newspapers in just one day.
Four teams created four very different dresses inspired by various eras: the 1980s, 1950s, the Victorian era and the Elizabethan era.
Various national and regional titles were used having been brought in by staff – including copies of the Express & Star and The Chronicle.
Design & Technology teacher Sancha Wood, who dreamt up the challenge, admits she was blown away by the finished dresses.
She said: "The title of the brief was 'make a statement' and two girls from Year 13 who ran the competition on the day ran with that and came up with the idea of using different eras.
"The aim was to encourage the girls to work together and we had girls from Year 7 to Year 13 all on the same team.
"I am so impressed by what they created, it just surpassed all of my expectations. I knew they would do a good job but the dresses were just jaw-dropping."
The competition was held as part of the school's Winter Games which sees pupils from four houses compete against each other in a variety of activities. It was run by sixth form students Matilda Grayson and Jessica Lloyd.
The dresses were judged by the school's headmistress who selected the 1980s design as the winner, created by pupils from 'Stafford' house.
Ms Wood added she asked the students to use newspaper as the school considers it important to promote recycling as much as possible.
She said: "The dresses once completed were placed outside the headmistress's office and the staff and the other pupils could not believe that had been done in a single day."
