Melting Dress

There are some girls who want to wear a dress just once. The dissolving polymer dress created by fashion guru Professor Helen Storey and Professor Tony Ryan, chemist is made of polyvinyl alcohol covered with flowers which darken with dye as they melt. This is similar to a melting water bottle which dissolves in hot water into a goo that is nutritious for plant seeds. Professor Tony Ryan said “The dresses Helen has created are a metaphor for the beautiful things we create and use but never really think about and just throw away. In your lifetime you throw away around 20 tonnes of packaging material. We want people to think about that. But it has made us think more seriously about science, too,”