Have you always complained of the time that your black dress could not accomodate your mobile phone?

A dress that is also a phone!

Have you always complained of the time that your black dress could not accomodate your mobile phone?

Well, you can bid adieu to your worries.

A company from Britain has come up with a dress that doubles up as a mobile phone.

The garment, branded the M-Dress, lets wearers make and receive calls by slipping their sim card under the label, allowing them to keep their usual numbers. Cool right?

Gesture recognition software allows users to pick up a call by raising their hand to their ear and end a conversation by letting it fall to their side.

The M-Dress, designed by fashion company CuteCircuit, will ring when an incoming call is received and different ringtones can be assigned to different numbers.

Technical problem
The only glitch with the latest technology is that the garment can only call a limited number of pre-programmed contacts.

The dress is described as being made of "a dark, richly textured, form-fitting silk jersey" and will be released in 2011. Its price remains undisclosed.

The antenna, described as "super-tiny", is stitched into the bottom hem of the dress, which rests at about knee-height, to reduce the amount of radiation that the wearer is exposed to.

A message on the CuteCircuit website said, "Very often phone calls are missed because mobile phones are quite awkward to carry, especially for women, that have garments with small or no pockets.To allow women to stay connectedu00a0 while remaining stylish, CuteCircuit designed the M- Dress. A mobile phone in its own right but built out of soft circuitry."

However, there are a couple of questions the garment raises. What happens if you get pushed into the swimming pool at the end of the night at that posh party bash? And indeed, how do you wash this dress?