OMG - It's Heinlein's "Sticktite"!

At last –

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2013/11/this-spray-on-fabric-is-a-wardrobe-in-a-can/

Not that I’d want to wear it, I just think it’s cool that it finally exists.

Thanks. That is cool.

Seems to leave more to the imagination than his version.

Looks like you need someone to help you “get dressed”, which strikes me as reminiscent of a lady being laced into a corset by her maid.

It’s body paint. Haven’t we had that for a while now?

Except that it’s not. It’s more like a fiberglass that safe to be sprayed on your skin.

How do they take the dresses off?

It says that the stuff actually dries in t he air, so it doesn’t adhere to the skin. That, I think, is the really new part.