It’s hard to think that plastic grocery bags could be so stylish, sexy and fun until you see the garments Meredith R�, a University art student, has created.

The garments R� has created can be seen along with works by other fiber artists at “Unraveled,” a fiber arts collective show of fashion, fiber arts, performance and installation pieces hosted by and benefiting Nu�i’s Space.

So, you might find yourself asking, “What are fiber arts?”

“(Fiber arts) are anything related to fabric, paper or any type of fabric working technique or garment,” R� said.

R�’s grocery bag garment creation will be featured in a performance she calls the “Trash Bag Rag”.

The artist said she was inspired by all of the plastic shopping bags she was accumulating and wanted to recycle the bags she wasn’t doing anything with.

The outcome of her creative endeavor is a blue “Wal-Mart cocktail dress,” which has a fitted bodice and a short ragged skirt that has the look of a dress a fairy princess or Tinkerbell might wear, complete with two tinkling bells.

Theresa Sporer’s fiber art is quite different from the fashions of R� and other artists featured in “Unraveled.”

“I’m obsessed with picking stuff up off the ground,” Sporer said.

Sporer picks up fabric and string, as well as other fiber pieces she finds, and winds them together, she said.

Her pieces, some as long as five feet or more and four feet in diameter, are based on a womb type shape.

“The pieces are like a nestling or holding together,” Sporer said Stephanie Anderson, like R�, has created wearable art, as well as mixed media pieces, for tonight’s show. Her work is titled “Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances.”

“My parents were always trying to get me to put my socks on over my feet instead of over my shoes,” Anderson said.

Anderson’s three costume pieces all have different themes, including a super hero theme, she said.

“They all have a childish aspect to them, based on imagination,” Anderson said.

Adding the only guy creations to the group is Daniel Davis.

“The reason I design clothes is because I have a hard time finding something worthwhile to buy,” he said. “I want character.”

Davis said he tries to break out of traditional mens-wear ideals and has four outfits featured in the show.

Andrea Trombetta Allen, is also a part of “Unraveled,” and works mainly with silk, which she puts through resist techniques similar to batik.

One of Allen’s delicate and flowing pieces has the image of a fawn in rich fauvist type colors, while another piece of white silk is embellished with turquoise stones.

Other artists in tonight’s fiber fetish extravaganza include Robin Edwards, Gretchen Edwards, Lily Kieber and Caitlin Martell.