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

    Wine is usually used to make dresses disappear.

  4. 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

  5. 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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