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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. 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 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.

  3. 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 Trendy.Ideology · · Score: 3, Informative

      Son of a ... thumb link. ... Here's the right one. http://www.bioalloy.org/projects/images/p-m6.jpg

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  4. *burp* by GFree · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I must be drunk myself. I immediately thought the title was referring to Wine the software instead of the beverage.

    "These fashionable dresses are sure to impress, as they are made from a compatibility layer released under the GNU Lesser General Public License."

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

    How Australian to make clothes out of booze :)

  6. 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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  7. How ironic by Legion303 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wine is usually used to make dresses disappear.

  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.

  11. 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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  12. 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

  13. 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.

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

    ... how about a cocktail dress?

  15. 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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