While there’s no doubt a head-to-toe white outfit is the epitome of summer, it can also an incredibly hazardous look for the accident-prone among us. Social media helped us figure out how to clean white sneakers—and now, it’s brought us the story of a woman in England who found a clever solution to an all-too-common summer problem: spilling wine on your white dress.
A Twitter user named Mia Williamson shared that she was at the Ripon Races in Leeds, England when someone splashed red wine on her friend Eleanor Walton’s crisp white Pretty Little Thing jumpsuit. Instead of panicking, Walton, Williamson, and the rest of their group came up with a genius hack: pouring more wine all over the outfit. Of course, they documented the whole ordeal and shared it on social media.
“Would you believe someone spilt red wine all down my white outfit so my work girls SOAKED my jumpsuit in the sink so it’s now red,” Walton tweeted.
Williamson added visuals: an image of Walton in her white jumpsuit with the initial stain, and an image of her after deciding to just add more red wine.
The result of their in-the-moment was a pink tie-dye print—which is actually very on-trend for summer. In fact, the finished product was good, Pretty Little Thing, the brand that made Walton’s white jumpsuit, even jokingly replied to the photos on Twitter: “Safe to say that wasn’t a ‘pour’ decision,” it tweeted.
Walton told The Cut that she was “quite drunk” when they decided to dye the entire outfit with more wine. “Part of me wanted to go home and change, but I was having too much fun and didn’t want to let a spill ruin my day,” she said, adding that the entire process took about half an hour and four glasses of wine. She also reveled on Twitter that she sat entirely naked in a bathroom stall while her friends worked on the outfit, and calmed those concerned by the waste of money by clarifying they had an open bar.
Walton also shared a photo of herself drying her new outfit under a hand dryer, and told The Cut “I got used to how it felt quite quickly. I wasn’t really thinking about it ‘cause I was having a good time.”
The look has incited a lot of conversation on social media, with many on Twitter commenting on how clever and cute it is, even going as far to ask for a tutorial.
This just goes to show: When in doubt, add more wine.
