A Northumberland teenager has wowed classmates by turning up to her prom in a dress she designed and made herself.
Sixteen-year-old Poppy Harris-Jones, of Lowick in north Northumberland, turned up to her high school prom in a white sparkly dress that she based on a dress she'd picked up from a charity shop and sewed herself. A student of the Duchess's Community High School in Alnwick, Poppy worked on the garment whilst she had Coronavirus.
Passionate about sustainable fashion, Poppy loved the shape of a dress she found at the Salvation Army charity shop and snapped it up at a bargain price, though never intended to wear it as there were some marks on it. She instead used the dress as inspiration to create her own pattern, having developed a passion for dressmaking whilst home-schooling during the pandemic, and after watching the film Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale.
