Meet the women who just made over £170k on eBay out of a dress made from loom-bands

Helen Smith celebrates a good day at the office (Picture: Mercury Press & Media Ltd)

 

Here’s the woman who just sold a dress made out of 20,000 loom-bands for an unbelievable £170,100 on eBay.
She’s the one with the really big smile on her face.
Helen Smith, 42, from North Wales, put the dress on eBay for her friend, Kathryn Burnand, who painstakingly wove it out of thousands of the colourful rubber bands, the latest must-have for the playground.

Helen’s daughter, 12-year-old Sian, modelled the size 4 ‘designer’ frock (Picture: eBay)

The dress, which is a size 4 and was modelled by Helen’s 12-year-old daughter, Sian, for the online auction, took designer Kathryn three and a half weeks and a total of 45 hours to make. The raw materials (that is, all those loom-bands) cost £45.

The two friends told the MailOnline they ‘would’ve been happy to make £50 profit’ from the dress, so they were pretty ‘flabbergasted’ when it attracted over 137 bids and eventually sold last night for a massive £170,055 profit (that’s a pretty decent mark-up, even for a designer frock).
Helen and Kathryn are now waiting to receive payment from the winning bidder (who’ll have to stump up the £7 delivery fee on top) and are hopeful it was a credible bid.