Eat your clothes?

To counteract the cholesterol from the Bacon Dress, here is the Lettuce Dress, and of course a Vegetable Dress
Berry Dresses are just Berry colored, so they don't count.
I know that they did this on Project Runway, but I still don't feel comfortable with it.
Having been brought up by a family that considered wasting food to be just short of stomping on baby chicks or pushing old ladies into traffic, I find that even the idea of clothing made from perfectly good food to be a sign of the Decline of Civilization As We Know It.