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Loudoun County Teenager is Finalist in Duct Tape Prom Dress Contest
NBC Washington ^ | 6/22/19 | Maggie More

Posted on 06/23/2019 5:58:06 AM PDT by Libloather

A 17-year-old resident of Loudoun County, Virginia is a finalist in Duck Tape’s annual “Stuck at Prom” Scholarship Contest, in which high school students compete to make the best possible prom wear out of duct tape.

Christina Mellott, now a rising senior at Freedom High School, entered the contest this past school year after hearing about it from friends and family.

Mellott has been designing clothes for three to four years already, and got her start in design after receiving a sewing machine for Christmas.

Her friends and family thought she may be able to cinch the Duck Tape competition because they knew about her design hobby. Mellott took up the challenge, thinking it would be a fun challenge to use tape to make a dress.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcwashington.com ...


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To: treetopsandroofs
"Silence is golden but duct tape is silver."

Duct tape, turning

NO, NO, NO!

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Mmm, Mmm, Mmm

21 posted on 06/24/2019 4:58:19 AM PDT by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. T)
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To: outofsalt

Incredible!! Some talented kids there.


22 posted on 06/24/2019 5:09:18 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worry ends where faith begins.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”

“I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to... I guess.”


23 posted on 06/24/2019 5:12:02 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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