Posted on 02/28/2003 5:47:45 AM PST by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:48:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Kaitlin Thompson's senior prom is more than a year away, and she's already thinking about what she's going to wear.
The 16-year-old from Crowley, Texas, knows the competition will be stiff. Very stiff. Like hundreds of teenagers around the country, she's going to be wearing a full-length gown fashioned entirely of duct tape, that polyethylene-and-cotton adhesive tape more commonly associated with household -- and now homeland -- emergencies than with evening wear. She'll also make a matching duct tux for her date.
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Great article. It also serves to illustrate that Free Republic is way ahead of the pack on style trends.From two weeks ago: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/842494/posts?page=94#94
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/842494/posts?page=93#93
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