Don't knock duct tape prom dresses - they get extremely elaborate and are really difficult to pull off. It's a good way to show creativity to a scholarship board.
Examples:
Actually, I just went to look at the website for that scholarship after I posted, and I saw a bunch of dresses/tuxes like this.. quite impressive!
So I guess you can get a scholarship for being creative
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