Prom couple make their formal attire from duct tape.  

For the past month, 17-year-old Kristie Openshaw and Nick Martin, 15, of Addison, her date for this year’s prom at Narraguagus High School, have been working on making their fancy dance duds out of the tough, sticky tape in colors such as camouflage, yellow, bright green, dark green, purple, pink, orange and, of course, basic black and white, a must for formal wear. Every color, it seems, except silver-gray.

From the tip of her flip-flops to the flowers in her hair, from the top of Martin’s hat to the bottoms of his sneakers, they were all duct tape.

The outfits, in keeping with the tropical theme, were festooned with clinging vines and fluorescent flowers, pineapples, and passion flowers of orange, pink and purple. Accouterments, of course, also were of duct tape. Her purse, duct-taped. His pink tie, also duct tape.

Their foray into adhesive fashion is not just a teenage whim. Openshaw and Martin decided to exchange taffeta for tape in order to compete in a nationwide contest sponsored by Henkel Consumer Adhesives Inc., which markets the Duck Tape brand of duct tape.  (Source)

Henkel is giving away $6,000 in scholarships to the winning couple based on the originality, use of color, workmanship and quantity of duct tape used. No word on whether or not Kristie and Nick won.

In other news, who knew that duct tape came in pink?