Kydex Dress

Model: Emily Stabile
Photographer: Alex Zamora

This dress is decorated with kydex blobs. Kydex is a thermoplastic sheet, which is basically plastic that you can warm up and mold it into any shape. My sisters helped me make these blobs. At home, I cut circles from kydex, and my sisters and I stood around the stove with pliers, holding the kydex circles. We warmed them over a stove burner, and then pushed the middle of the circle into the mouth of jars to create a wavy, curved shape.

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