Scientist finds another use for red wine.

Look out, Milan. It's the return of the little red dress.

Australian researchers are making dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to grow slimy dresses from wine and beer.

Laboratory technician Gary Cass says the University of Western Australia's Micro'be' project combines science and art. "We're looking to provoke some discussion about future fashions, about the possibility of other material we can use instead of our normal cottons and silks," he said.

So now you really can pour yourself into a dress.

Mr Cass, who also writes science fiction, ...

I saw that coming.