To make her dazzling prom ensemble, Imogen Curry labored for 109 hours crafting a 6-foot set of white wings, fashioning a dark-blue belt decked out with a ram’s head, fishes and other signs of the zodiac, topping the whole creation off with a curlicue pattern of 222 handmade beads — some of them dangling from her cuffs like the fringe on a sombrero.
But even more impressive: Curry built this intricate and majestic outfit entirely out of duct tape — material normally reserved for repairing a banged-up fender or patching the holes in a pair of sneakers.
And for her artistry, she earned a spot as a top 10 finalist in the national Stuck at Prom contest sponsored by Duck Tape itself, for which Curry might win a $10,000 scholarship…