Dresses Made from Wine

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."

Slimy dresses?

[Alchemist253]

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

Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

News for girls. That that matters.

It Won't Go Anywhere

[Elvis77]

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

hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

'free' as in clothing?

Dear Slashdot editors

[Capt'n Hector]

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.

Go Australia !!!

[The Sith Lord]

How Australian to make clothes out of booze :)

Re:Slimy dresses?

[RuBLed]

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!

Prom

[cyberbob2351]

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

*ducks*

beaten to the punch

[User 956]

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.

Re:Dear Slashdot editors

[eclectro]

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.

Re:It Won't Go Anywhere

[StrahdVZ]

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...

Wet..

[Leto-II]

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!

Obligatory

[professorfalcon]

Next up... real beer goggles.

Dresses Made from Wine

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Is this really news?

Re:It Won't Go Anywhere

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:It Won't Go Anywhere

[Plammox]

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.

Re:Slimy dresses?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

As long as we have alcohol...

[rubberchickenboy]

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

Clearly, these bacteria work in my office.

alcohol==work

[cerberusss]

FTFA:

"As long as we have alcohol, these bacteria will do their job,"

In my experience, this prerequisite also goes for software engineers.

So this means that...

[StarkRG]

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

inflatable dolls?

[Hulleye]

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

Re:Reversing the process

[Faylone]

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

Wine dress...

[Sutaren]

... how about a cocktail dress?

The real question....

[Anonymous Coward]

Can they do this with hot grits?

Re:Obligatory

[physicsboy500]

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

it looks like Kiss crossdressing

I have a better idea...

[mrbluze]

What about dresses removed with wine

I tried that - and it works!

Re:Slimy dresses?

[Anonymous Coward]

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