loom band

TV3 commissioned Dublin Institute of Design's fashion design students to create a dress from loom bands.

Loom bands, bracelets woven from brightly colored rubber bands, were seen as both a global fashion statement and a children's fad.

It is a sort of evolution of the loom band, the small rubber bands that are designed to be twisted into bracelets and which became a craze among children and young teenagers two years ago.

After their son Skye, 5, was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year, he decided to try to make a loom band long enough to reach the moon to fundraise for medical research.

Big on Frozen: Frozen toys are going to be hot: John Stillwell/PA Wire This Christmas is set to be the biggest year for toy sales in four years after must-have loom bands, Panini stickers and Lego figures set tills ringing.

Because you can't drown your sorrows with a loom band.

No, you won't have known about that ceremoniously presented sticky cupcake or new loom band bracelet you have to wear all day.