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Dresses Made from Wine

Posted by samzenpus on from the julianne-whiskey-pants dept.

Horar writes "Australian researchers have combined art and science to make dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to 'grow' slimy dresses from wine and beer."

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  1. Slimy dresses? by Alchemist253 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could this eventually bring new meaning to "wet t-shirt contest?"

    1. Re:Slimy dresses? by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well yes but I'm not very optimistic about it because...

      from TFA: "But the dresses have to be kept wet, says Cass. Once they dry they become like tissue paper and can easily tear if the fabric is too thin."

      It would now become "dry t-shirt contest". The portable hair dryers at Home TV Shopping suddenly sounded great!

    2. Re:Slimy dresses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Constitutional Monarchial Australia, wine makes girls put on dresses.

    3. Re:Slimy dresses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Have any of you above actually SEEN the picutre on the linked website? Beer goggles won't fix that.

  2. Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    News for girls. That that matters.

  3. It Won't Go Anywhere by Elvis77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This will never take off... we Aussies like to drink our wine and beer not waste it on irrelevant things like clothing

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    1. Re:It Won't Go Anywhere by StrahdVZ · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, there has been a wine glut in Australia over the last few years. For the sake of our livers we have to find more uses for it all. :)


      Other than send the cheap swill overseas and charge exorbitant prices for it, of course. We already do that...

    2. Re:It Won't Go Anywhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      This will never take off... we Aussies like to drink our wine and beer not waste it on irrelevant things like clothing

      TFA is incomplete -- they say the dresses are formed on "DEflatable dolls" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). However, they fail to say whether the dresses therefore assume the corresponding cavities which the dolls are equipped with.

      In any case, if they're formed on such dolls, I'd be very suspicious of whether all the "slime" came from bacterial fermentation.

    3. Re:It Won't Go Anywhere by Plammox · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, you're effectively killing off French wine here in Europe, with all that Australian, Chilean, South African and (gasp!) American red wines you export to us. I read that Chile alone has experienced a 700% growth in wine exports to europe over the last few years

      Not that I mind, we never buy the French stuff anyway, as we think it's just overpriced French farmer morning wee.

      So let me just give some thanks to the aussies/chlieans/boers/yanks that you're getting the complacent French out of their comfort zone.

  4. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    'free' as in clothing?

  5. Dear Slashdot editors by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Slashdot editors, please refrain from posting further stories with SCARY, zombie-like accompanying pictures. Especially at 3:30 AM, EST. Because now I can't sleep. Thank you.

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    1. Re:Dear Slashdot editors by eclectro · · Score: 2, Funny

      zombie-like accompanying pictures. Especially at 3:30 AM, EST. Because now I can't sleep. Thank you.

      What's even scarier is it was a girl walking torwards you. I need to hide in the basement now.

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  6. Go Australia !!! by The+Sith+Lord · · Score: 4, Funny

    How Australian to make clothes out of booze :)

  7. Prom by cyberbob2351 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will this make it easier for overly horny high school males to get their prom dates drunk?

    *ducks*

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  8. beaten to the punch by User+956 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Australian researchers have combined art and science to make dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to 'grow' slimy dresses

    Bah. EECS students have been using the "floor pile" method to grow similar clothing for years.

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  9. Wet.. by Leto-II · · Score: 4, Funny

    must be kept wet


    I'm all for any clothing technology that requires dresses to be wet or else they fall apart. Either way, we win!
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  10. Obligatory by professorfalcon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next up... real beer goggles.

    1. Re:Obligatory by physicsboy500 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'd need them when looking and the girl (guy?) model from the article

      it looks like Kiss crossdressing

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  11. Dresses Made from Wine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So? wake me up when they start making wine from dresses..

    Is this really news?

  12. As long as we have alcohol... by rubberchickenboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    From TFA: "As long as we have alcohol, these bacteria will do their job."

    Clearly, these bacteria work in my office.

  13. alcohol==work by cerberusss · · Score: 4, Funny
    FTFA:

    "As long as we have alcohol, these bacteria will do their job,"
    In my experience, this prerequisite also goes for software engineers.
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  14. So this means that... by StarkRG · · Score: 2, Funny

    By the time you're drunk the dress is already off, awesome time saver!

  15. inflatable dolls? by Hulleye · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must have been great to see the reaction of whoever was checking the bill on this experiment

    1. 100 bottles of red wine: $2,000
    2. Inflatable doll: $50
    3. Models for zombie cavewoman photo shoot: $500
    4. Look on UWA accountant's face: Priceless

  16. Re:Reversing the process by Faylone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, I think somewhere in my room, some of my clothes are already working on that.

  17. Wine dress... by Sutaren · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... how about a cocktail dress?

  18. The real question.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can they do this with hot grits?

  19. I have a better idea... by mrbluze · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about dresses removed with wine

    I tried that - and it works!

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