歷時4個月 高校學生做出樹葉美裙

Four sophoMores at the University of Hefei recently proved that you can make a designer dress yourself, for free, using only plant leaves.

最近，合肥大學的4名大二學生證明：你可以一分錢不花，只用樹葉就能給自己做件高檔時裝。

The students behind the unique dress got the idea for it over six months ago, while trying to come up with an interesting project for the university's annual "Animal and Plant Specimen Contest" at the University of Hefei.

6個月前，做出這條獨一無二的裙子的學生們想出了這個創意，當時他們正在爲合肥大學年度“動植物標本大賽”構思一個有趣的提案。

The four women were inspired by the gorgeous dress worn by Chinese actress Fan Bingbing at the Cannes Festival, and tried to recreate it out of plant leaves.

這4個女生的靈感來自國內女演員范冰冰在戛納電影節上穿的那條華麗的禮服裙，試圖用植物的葉子重現這條裙子。

After researching the best way to use plant leaves as fabric, and coming up with a design for their dress, the four students started collecting the leaves.

在研究出用樹葉作爲面料的最佳方式和畫好裙子的設計圖後，四個學生就開始收集樹葉。

Some species were readily available on campus, but others, like magnolia leaves were not, so they had to travel to Tianzhu Mountain to collect them.

有些樹葉在校園裏很容易找到，但有些樹葉，比如廣玉蘭樹葉，校園裏就沒有，爲了收集這些葉子他們還特地去了天柱山。

To ensure that the collected leaves didn't shrivel or rot, the students removed the flesh by boiling them in alkali and sodium carbonate solution for about two hours.

爲了確保這些收集來的葉子不會枯萎或腐爛，這些學生把葉子放在鹼水和蘇打水中煮兩個小時來去除葉肉。

This made the flesh easier peeled away, leaving only the "skeleton" of the leaf, a thin film with all the intricate veins left intact.

這樣能讓葉肉更容易剝離，留下來的只有葉子的“骨架”，一張脈絡完整的薄膜。

The four science and biotechnology students could only work on their special dress after classes and on weekends, so it took them nearly four months to complete.

這四名生物技術專業的學生只能在課後和週末做這條特別的裙子，所以他們花了將近四個月時間才完成。

But it all paid off when one of the students finally put on the leaf dress and showed it off to everyone.

但最終當其中一個女生穿上這條樹葉裙向大家展示時，一切努力都是值得的。

They posted photos of it, at various stages, online, and it went viral almost instantly.

她們將樹葉裙不同製作階段的照片傳到網上，幾乎瞬間就走紅了。