Jessica Collins sewed the dress herself over the course of four months using 1,400 Calypso mango seeds from her family's farm in Dimbulah, Queensland, Australia. The dress is Collins' final project for her Grade 12 design and technology class. 
    She grew up on her family's farm, where she often pitched in, helping package mangos. But she has always been dismayed at how much perfectly edible fruit gets thrown out each year because it's not up to supermarket standards. Her family has to dump about 5,000 kilograms of mangoes every year.
    Making the dress was a painstaking labour of love. She had to cut out each seed, then use her dad's pressure cleaner to dry them out and get rid of the mango flesh. Then she halved each seed and sewed them together so the shiny insides are visible while the fibrous outsides remain hidden.