Students raise awareness of the importance of seat belts
A dress made completely from seat belts is in the running for a design award in the Junk Koutoure
Recycled Fashion Competition, sponsored by Bank of Ireland. Three enterprising students from Ursuline college Sligo, Eimear Joyce, Rachael Quigley and Émer Mc kenna (who also models the dress ) created the dress to highlight the importance of road safety and to encourage young people in particular to wear their seatbelts. It is estimated that wearing seatbelts can reduce the chances of injury or death in a car crash by up to 50%.
Composed of over 70 seatbelts recycled from second hand garages even the wig is also completely made from seatbelts and CD segments have been used on the dress to represents broken glass.
The name Car Trash is a pun on car crash which is what can happens if you don’t wear your seatbelt.
The competition, Junk Koutoure is a national contest which encourages young designers in second level education to create striking couture designs and impressive works of wearable art from everyday junk that would normally find its way into the bin. The aim is to inspire and ignite passion in these teenagers while at the same time subtly educating them about the importance of recycling and reusing waste.
Twenty designs will make it to the glamorous grand final in April 2017 held in the 3Arena Dublin.
If you would like to vote for Car Trash – just follow the link here .
The voting runs from Monday the 3rd of April to the 14th of April and you can vote once every 24 hours.
3rd April, 2017
