book dress Archives - Threads of a Fairytale

World Book Day costume

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Helen Hobden

Hi! World Book Day is coming up on the 2nd March, so I thought I’d give a 20% discount on my book dress as it would be the perfect costume / outfit to wear on the day! I’ve also added a couple of new photos to the listing so you can see a close-up now of some of the details of the dress – the paper roses, the patterns of the paper punch I used, and even one of the butterflies I cut out of paper and added to the skirt part of the dress.

I loved making this dress and it would be brilliant to see it go to a new home. Sadly it didn’t fit a lady who came here to try it on, but she had the idea to wear it to cosplay as The Library from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. What a cool idea!

If you enjoy reading, I think it would be a unique alternative wedding dress; or perhaps a fairytale ball gown at a literary event. Anyway, now’s the time to get it while it’s on sale with £50 0ff! Find it at Oshun Occasions.

Oshun dress in the Wells Journal

Posted on June 13, 2014July 22, 2014 by Helen Hobden

The Wells Journal website featured my book dress in an article about the Bookbarn fashion show this week. There’s a great photo of Rain wearing the paper dress and it links to my blog post about it too!

Book barn fashion show update.

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Helen Hobden

Friday night was lots of fun and even though Rain was nervous, she did brilliantly on the catwalk and my dress of books had loads of attention. The staff at Bookbarn were lovely and she wants to work there now! Anyway, I’m very chuffed (do people still say ‘chuffed?) to say that I won a fabulous book about wearable art full of lots of inspiring ideas for costumes.

The paper dress is now for sale here.

The bookbarn out-of-print fashion show

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Helen Hobden

An out-of-print fashion show has been organised by the Bookbarn, near Bristol in England and I decided to take part and made a paper dress inspired by fairytales. I was given a stack of old unwanted books and told to be as creative as possible. The dress incorporates lots of different papercraft techniques and I decorated the corset with lots of layered and twisted flowers, and the skirt has many folded pages making a bustle and train.

It is just a bit of fun combining my love of books and unique fashion. I usually upcycle luxury fabrics, but I thought I’d enjoy the challenge of paper instead. The photo on the right shows my daughter, Rain modelling the dress with Maisie Williams (Arya Stark in Game of Thrones) who will be judging the fashion show on Friday. There are more photos on Oshun’s facebook page and I have also written all about it on my alternative fashion blog. The dress is for sale in my shop in the ‘Fairytales’ section.