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Published Date: 14 October 2008
A FASHION designer in the Lake District has created a haute couture wedding dress out of recycled Newcastle United shirts in protest at the continuing chaos at the club.
Angy Morton and her husband Mike are both Newcastle United fans but decided to tear up their shirts after Kevin Keegan left the club.

Angy, who runs her own fashion design business near Lake Windermere, has now turned the shirts into a haute couture wedding dress.

She said: "Newcastle United fans have a real love hate relationship with their team at the moment. So I thought tearing up the shirts and turning them into a wedding dress was a good way to express how we feel.

"Many fans are finding it difficult to wear their shirts with pride with the way things are going at the moment but ultimately there's no escape because they are really married to football and the team!"

The dress was due to feature in a fashion show at Rheged near Penrith on Friday and Saturday, October 11, together with a number of other contemporary designs by Angy.

Recycling is a theme that features strongly in Angy's work.

She continued: "A lot of clothing gets thrown out because we've grown tired of it or because something new comes along. I like to think how I can make a beautiful new outfit or perhaps a bag out of these things.
"The Newcastle United shirts are a good example. Two new shirts are brought out every year but what happens to the old ones?

"Many of them probably get thrown out or just end up at the back of a cupboard."

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  • Last Updated: 14 October 2008 10:01 AM
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  • Location: Lakeland
 
 

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