An Austin artist made this puffer jacket with a unique material: vintage barf bags
There's only one word to describe the only-of-its-kind puffer jacket Austin artist Jessie Bearden made from barf bags: sick.
Bearden's unique jacket comes as a collaboration with motion sickness medication Dramamine, which is celebrating 75 years and its "The Last Barf Bag" campaign.
The anniversary project aims to give new life to barf bags, which Dramamine claims often go unused thanks to the company "perfecting the art of nausea prevention."
"Unfortunately, that pursuit may have had an unintended side effect: barf bags don’t have as much barf to catch anymore, and their industry has been impacted as a result," Dramamine said on "The Last Barf Bag" website. "That just didn’t sit right with us. So, we set out to pay tribute to the barf bag, filling it up for the first time in years with something new: purpose."
Bearden created her puffer jacket with vintage airline barf bags, and it sold for just $7.50 within seconds on April 17. Prior to its sale, the puffer sat on display at "The Last Barf Bag" exhibition in New York.
The artist from Austin is no stranger to unconventional art materials. She was a finalist in the crafting competition show "Making It," which ran on NBC from 2018 to 2021 with hosts Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman.
While Bearden's puffer has found a new home, people can still purchase special bags on the campaign's website for just $5. Each one sports the logo, "This is not a barf bag." Instead, they're designed as puppets, coloring books, stockings, chef hats and more.
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Austin artist, Dramamine collab on jacket made from vintage barf bags
