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This Dress Was Made From 192 BART Tickets

Artsy, fartsy and BARTsy… A creative use for old BART tickets
By - posted 3/21/2015 No Comment

What do you do with your BART tickets when they only have a nickel or a dime left on them? Add value? Donate them? Throw them away?

Oakland fashion designer Sean Porter spent three years saving his tiny tickets to create a designer dress, made out of 192 of blue BART tickets, with 120 of those tickets in the skirt alone. He used the shape of the Transamerica building as his inspiration for the shape of the dress.

It’s currently on display in the window of Piedmont Fabrics in Oakland  through the end of March, alongside a mannequin wearing colorful ribbons representing the BART system map.

The BART Dress
On Display through end of March 2015
Piedmont Fabrics, 4009 Piedmont near 40th, Oakland
About a 20 minute walk from MacArthur BART, but close to Fenton’s Creamery so you can reward yourself after the walk.

> Read more at Bartable