Fashion: how to use wine and beer to grow a slimy fermented dress

[mandy]

A dress that smells like the lounge room the morning after a boozy party may be just the thing to make you stand out in a crowd.

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

"We're looking at [the dresses] to provoke some discussion about future fashions, about the possibility of other material we can use instead of our normal cottons and silks," says Gary Cass, who works on the Micro'be' project at the University of Western Australia...

full article: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stori...872191.htm

[BellisimaJ.]

Gee, wonder how that dress would work for my date tonight?  

"We're looking at [the dresses] to provoke some discussion about future fashions, about the possibility of other material we can use instead of our normal cottons and silks,"

Let's not get too ridiculous here.  :

Edit:

Gee, wonder how that dress would work for my date tonight?    

Anyone else care to test drive this dress?

[Boucher]

So does this mean they will be edible?

[BellisimaJ.]

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