- I'm making a freaking skirt from cards.
It's already going to be bizarre.
(upbeat music)
Hi, I'm Shiquita, and my friend Megan
has challenged me to wear anything but clothes
for a whole week.
I didn't know this was the thing.
Apparently there are college parties
that are based on this concept.
I didn't know about them if my school had them.
I know we had something called the undie run,
and we had toga parties.
Even when I went to the toga party
I wore a actual like Greek costume
because I already had one.
For the next five days I'm gonna be making things
out of non-clothing items.
And today I'm going to use trash bags.
I think that's a good first day item to use.
It should be pretty easy, right?
(deep synth instrumental)
Okay, so one bag is pretty big.
My plan is to use the shape of this dress
that I already have.
The thing that I think is going to mess me up
is this is a pretty stretchy dress.
So I'm gonna have to make sure that I give myself
a lot of room.
Okay, I'm going to cut the bag in half.
Maybe I only need one.
See, here I go, I'm so indecisive.
Do y'all remember making shirts for spirit day
and used to cut the sides, and then tie them back together,
so they have the little stringy bits.
That's basically how I'm going to tie the sides together.
And then I'm gonna flip it inside out so you don't see them.
(heavy percussion music)
Okay, I am (laughs) really nervous about this.
Because I did not realize that the sides
are gonna scrunch up like this.
So now this thing is itty-bitty, oh my God.
Wish me luck, y'all.
(television beeps)
(clumsy trumpet music)
Well, that did not work.
Using a stretchy dress was a terrible idea.
I need to show you how badly I ripped it up trying it on,
because I was like, "You will fit!"
And it didn't.
I like completely ripped the sides apart.
But in theory if I make it bigger the exact same way
this should work.
For my first attempt at something like this,
I am not mad at it.
There's the back.
The cowl neck thing is kind of working.
I would, however, be worried that this thing
would fall apart eventually.
Like, it does not feel very sturdy.
I wonder what someone would say
if I was actually wearing this outside,
outdoors, in real life.
Why not make a statement,
and wear my thigh high boots with this. (laughs)
This dress has no flexibility.
Oh, I feel winded for some reason.
(dress crumpling)
This is so loud. (laughs)
(upbeat club music)
Okay, for my second outfit I'm going to be using
this really pretty shiny wrapping paper.
My idea for this is to do like a fitted top-skirt combo.
I'm wanting to do ruffles on the skirt,
but I feel like maybe it might be too hard, I don't know.
But I definitely know that I want to use
one of my patterns that I've made in the past.
I really like this iridescent white.
White and pink, maybe?
(gasps)
Oh, I got a good soft paper.
Okay, I'm excited now.
I want to do like a puffy sleeve.
(upbeat synth music)
(skirt crinkles)
So I have to move very carefully,
but this is the final look.
I can't really like style it and put shoes,
because I'm falling apart.
I have to hurry to take pictures before this falls off.
I think it's really cool.
I got all the details, like this little dart here,
darts in the front.
I like my little puff sleeve, my asymmetrical sleeve.
I kind of feel like I belong in Xenon,
in the future, floating around with them
in the space station.
(camera shutter clicks)
- Good morning.
It is day three.
And today I'm going to be making clothes
out of playing cards.
Yup, playing cards.
How am I going to do this?
I have not figured that out yet.
I was going to do a v-neck crop situation with a wrap skirt
but then I realized the other two items that I made.
I didn't really do anything exuberant.
I didn't really do anything extra.
And this wouldn't really be a challenge
if I didn't go the extra mile now would it?
So I have a dozen decks of playing cards.
So I have here yarn, elastic, and this thick thread.
I want to make something with maybe a train or something.
I'm thinking I can hot glue some of the cards
to the elastic, but this is going to be
a lengthy ass process. (sighs)
What did I sign up for?
(groovy synth music)
(television beeps)
This is a bit harder than I thought it was going to be.
So using the needle and thread for the bottoms
of the cards to connect to the second row of cards
is not going to work.
It's too time consuming.
I tried it on, it does fit.
It's just really hard to get in and out of.
So I think I'm going to cut between these two,
and add some of this ribbon so that I can kind of like
tie it on when I get ready to wear it for my final look.
(rocking electronic music)
(television beeps)
(sighs)
(giggles)
I'm in a playing card, mesmerizing phew.
So this is taking a lot longer than I thought
it was going to take.
I like the way that I'm going, it's just taking forever.
So I'm going to pause, I'm going to go eat,
and then when I come back, I'm going to make my other outfit
so I can at least get one in today.
I'm already through a whole deck--
(phone rings)
(television beeps)
I'm back.
And I am switching to pillow cases.
I want to do a color block outfit
with this black satin and this burgundy-ish.
So I have four of each.
The red seems to be a bit thicker.
Oh, the fact that there's a zipper is actually clutch.
I'm going to be using this bonding tape.
I have to iron it on.
I am going to cut apart the pillowcases and bond them
as if it was one big piece of fabric
with a zipper already on it.
(calm synth music)
I didn't expect it to be this much
of a problem solving experience.
I really thought that as soon as I started,
I would be like moving and grooving.
Why do I ever think that?
I think it looks pretty good.
There's a few spots where I can see that bond stuff
kind of showing through which sucks.
Here's the skirt.
I was trying to do sort of like a wrap skirt thing,
but I still have to add the straps.
(television beeps)
Okay.
So it is day three, and it is late.
And I still had to take pictures in this outfit.
So I think what I'm going to do is go to sleep
and take the pictures tomorrow on day four,
before it gets started on my day four outfit.
Because (yawning) I can't take cute pictures being tired.
(trumpet music)
(rooster crows)
(upbeat synth music)
Here is the final, this is a wrap skirt.
So if I move too fast, things reveal
that I don't want revealed.
I planned the back around the zipper
that's on a pillow case.
I matched it with my combat boots and my big hoop earrings,
and this is the final look.
I felt pretty good about it honestly.
(groovy synth music)
I'm starting to think playing cards was a bad idea,
but luckily I have upgraded my sewing machine
and it's heavy duty.
It's been smooth sailing ever since I figured out
that this machine could handle these cards.
It's like butter!
Some of these lines are going all over the place,
cause you know what?
I'm making a freaking skirt from cards,
it's already going to be bizarre.
(television beeps)
(skirt rattles)
(skateboard falls)
(Shiquita laughs)
To be honest, I haven't worn makeup in any of these looks.
I'm saving it for the big bang, the big finale.
There's my little train that I attempted to do.
Maybe without the train also like this would be easier
to move in, but I wanted a challenge
because all the other ones were short,
but I would not recommend it.
I'm going to find a way to take some pictures real quick.
The main reason why (camera shutter clicking)
I did not make the top out of the cards
is because there's only so many days in this challenge.
So there's no more time to waste.
It's day five.
And clearly I'm doing something with fake flowers,
but I don't really have a game plan.
I will be trying to find a way to hot glue
these purple and white flowers onto this bikini
Did y'all know how expensive fake flowers were?
Cause I didn't.
Not until this.
How hard is this going to be?
Oh, not that bad.
You're telling me these just come apart?
(flowers snapping)
He loves me. (spooky music)
He loves me not.
He loves me.
He loves me not.
Ah, he loves me.
He loves me not.
That was a fictional person anyway, so it's okay.
(flowers ruffing)
(tape falls)
Copper colored wire.
I want to see if there's a way,
like how would it look if I stringed
a few things along here?
I hope there's enough wire in this,
because if there's not, my plan is screwed.
("Flight of the Bumblebee" plays)
This one's definitely the funnest one.
Of course, I'm wearing like my swimsuit bottoms
and a bandeau top under this, just in case.
I went all out.
I did the purple backdrop.
This makes me happy.
And now the challenge is done.
If I were going to one of those
anything but clothes parties, this would probably be
the one I try to make work the most.
If I had to do it again, I'd definitely get more flowers
and give myself more coverage.
Thank you guys so much for watching me make
five DIY anything but clothes outfits.
I wonder who's going to have to try this next.
Okay.
That's all.
Oh, Lordie.
(upbeat synth music)