Office Supply Challenge

Back with another Project Runway challenge! This was a hard one! We were asked to make outfits for our Barbies using common office supplies. Given my penchant for making things more difficult than they need to be, I immediately swore off Post-It notes. I guessed that there would be several Post-It entries due to the array of colors available. Three of the other four entries used Post-It products, so my instinct was correct. I also got hung up on using "common" supplies. There are all sorts of novelty office supplies out there these days, but I declared them off limits.

So here is what I ended up with! First, I stripped the vinyl from a three-ring binder to make "leather" pants. Let me assure you, pulling vinyl pants onto a plastic doll's body is not easy. Size UP if you are going to try it! The top is made from a padded envelope. I wanted to make some sort of parka or vest from it and create a look for skiing, but it turned out to be much harder to work with the bubble wrap than I thought, so I settled for a "quilted" top. Then, as a closure, I used brass brads and wound a strip of vinyl around them, interoffice-envelope style.

This is definitely one of the more subtle looks this week, so I don't know how it will fare in the judging, but I was happy just to have an outfit to send down the runway!