New fashion trend is watermelon dresses

A new fashion trends sees people photographing themselves 'wearing' a watermelon dress on the photograph-sharing site Instagram.

The bizarre new fashion trend on Instagram sees someone holding up a dress-shaped watermelon slice and placing it in front of a woman, man or even a dog, just like when people pretend to hold up the Tower of Pisa, the Daily Mirror reports.

Using the hashtag #watermelondress, people from all around the world have been posting their images on the photo-sharing site and the trend has now gone international.