Disposable Dress Dissolves In Water: Dumbest Thing Ever? (VIDEO)

After putting together a list of 37 ways to reuse old clothes, I'm a little appalled to find something like this -- people are making disposable dresses:

The team created plastic dresses -- made out of a similar material to washing capsules -- that disappear on contact with water, with the aim of drawing attention to the problem of waste plastic. "It is about getting different disciplines together to solve a global problem," Professor Storey said.

A touring exhibition, which began at the London College of Fashion, and in which the dresses are hung from scaffolds and lowered into giant fishbowls, dissolving in dramatic patterns as they are submerged, will be returning to the capital for inclusion in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards at the Design Museum on 13 February.

Infuriating, right? But it's meant to provoke some deep thought -- and has been meant so for a few years now. The Wonderland Project wants people to think about waste

Wonderland, the umbrella project through which these new inventions are being developed, will stage an exhibition in Sheffield this autumn to provoke a debate on our throwaway society, backed by the Government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

"The idea is to get people curious about something that is hard to talk about and not glamorous - how to get rid of your waste responsibly," said Prof Storey.

Here's a video on the Wonderland disposable dresses, too.