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MCCTC students make fashion statement at Trash Bash
The Vindicator (Youngstown)
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Mahoning County Career and Technical Center’s interactive multimedia students and the Mahoning County Green team presented the Trash Bash fashion show Tuesday, where students fashioned recycled items into clothing. Teaming up were Leah Yochman and Xellia Camecci, both juniors from Jackson-Milton High School, at the fashion show.
The Vindicator (Youngstown)
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Brad Wineburner of Poland, a junior at Mahoning County Career and Technical Center, Canfield, shows off his candy-wrapper tie after the 2011 Spring Trash Bash at the school. MCCTC’s interactive multimedia students and the Mahoning County Green team presented the Trash Bash fashion show Tuesday, where students fashioned recycled items into clothing.
By Denise Dick
CANFIELD
Skirts fashioned from playing cards and garbage-bag dresses round out the top pieces from the 2011 spring waste-can collection that hit the runway this week.
Students in the interactive multimedia program at Mahoning County Career and Technical Center presented Trash Bash 2011 — Reduce, Reuse and Recycle into Fashion — Tuesday at the school. The annual event is staged leading up to Earth Day, which is Friday.
The students created the apparel by recycling everyday items.
Senior Michelle Novak, 18, of Lowellville strutted across the stage in a skirt made from a deck and a half of playing cards with a Rulli Bros. reusable grocery bag as the bodice.
“I was just looking around the house to see what I could use when I saw the deck of cards,” she said. “The skirt was first.”
She was trying to decide how to complete the outfit when a trip with her mother to Rulli Bros. provided the inspiration.
“The straps were already made,” said senior Lauren Bartelmay, 18, from Chaney.
The grocery bag’s handles became straps for the dress, a pair of socks with the toes cut off became sleeves.
Michelle, Lauren and junior Ryan Musgrove, 17, of Boardman, worked on the ensemble together.
They punched holes into the corners of the cards, stringing them together with yarn. Some hot glue finished the job.
Michelle’s silver pumps came from an old pair of prom shoes that she and her teammates covered with about 100 pop can tabs. The flowers that adorn the tops of the shoes and Michelle’s hair were made by cutting up pop cans and bending the pieces to form petals.
“It was all stuff we had around the house,” Michelle said. “We didn’t buy anything.”
The show was presented by the interactive multimedia students and the Mahoning County Green Team.
Kim Lewis of the Green Team said Tuesday’s show marked the fourth annual Trash Bash.
“There’s so much creativity in the clothes,” she said. “These kids — they’re gifted.”
Senior Alex Broderick, 18, of Austintown Fitch looked like he was ready for battle in his gray and red creation of buckles, lights, duct tape and cardboard.
“It’s called a Spartan,” Alex said of his suit. “I got the idea from the ‘Halo and Gears of War’ video games.”
It took him about eight months to make the outfit.
“The only thing is, I can’t sit down in it,” he said.
Junior Brad Wineburner, 17, of Poland drew inspiration from sweet treats.
A collection of Skittles wrappers pieced together comprised his pants with more candy wrappers making up his hat and tie. Caps from pop bottles and milk jugs embellished his T-shirt.
“We asked around and asked other students at school to bring in things that we could use,” he said.