Mind the Gaga - dress made from train tickets

Bruja Estrella Howe models a dress made of train tickets which was designed and made by Aleah Leigh See Newsteam story NTIDRESS. A fashion designer has created a first class Lady Gaga-style dress - made from thousands of discarded TRAIN TICKETS. Quirky Aleah Leigh, 25, has been designing dresses for two years and has already used recycled materials like crisp packets, playing cards and rubber gloves. Now the self-trained designer has unveiled her latest fashion line - a flowing dress made out of 3,500 used train tickets. Single mum-of-two Aleah came up with the idea while travelling on a Chiltern train to London earlier this year.Staff at Leamington Spa train station helped the designer, who was born in the Warwickshire town, to collect the standard orange and white tickets. She then stapled and Sellotaped them together to create a long dress complete with angel wings on the back and even a head-piece.

Quirky Aleah Leigh, 25, of Leamington, has been designing dresses for two years and has already used recycled materials like crisp packets, playing cards and rubber gloves.

Now the self-trained designer has unveiled her latest fashion line - a flowing dress made out of 3,500 used train tickets.

Single mum-of-two Aleah came up with the idea while travelling on a Chiltern train to London earlier this year.

Staff at Leamington train station helped the designer to collect the standard orange and white tickets.

She then stapled and Sellotaped them together to create a long dress complete with angel wings on the back and even a head-piece.

Aleah said she was inspired by Lady Gaga’s style, adding: “I love the colour of the tickets and thought they would be really interesting to use.

“I was really grateful of the help from the staff at Leamington Spa station.

“It took me about eight days to make and I worked on it every evening for that week and a bit.

Aleah has made it to the final round in the Midlands Fashion Awards 2013 in the ‘emerging designers’ category.

The theme for this year’s carnival is eco fashion and Aleah plans to use the train ticket dress alongside her other creations.