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Smart Clothes
Tommy Hilfiger’s new line of clothing includes an odd feature. You can earn reward points by wearing the clothes, thanks to a smart chip embedded in them. You can eventually redeem these points for Hilfiger gift cards or merchandise. Though I can't find any indication of how many points you need (or how many days you need to wear the clothes) before you get a reward.More info: Tommy Hilfiger, techcrunch
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 27, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Technology
Ankle phone-holder
From French fashion house Maison Margiela.
If you have the tolerance for it, you can check out the video of their runway show in which a few of the models are wearing the ankle phone-holder. Though the phone holder may be the least weird part of the show. I think at least one of the models was wrapped in fiberglass insulation (see picture below). Others seemed to be wrapped in carpets.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 26, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Technology, Telephones
Virginia Slims Clothing
Dress in the tribal garments of your tobacco goddess.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 20, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Tobacco and Smoking, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Women, Twentieth Century
Motion-Sickness Glasses
They're called SEETROËN glasses. They were designed by the French car company Citroën, which claims that they're the first glasses that eliminate motion sickness. Apparently the blue liquid in the glasses simulates level ground, which helps stop the vertigo feeling that some people get while traveling.Interesting concept, but they look a lot like "crazy straw" glasses.
More info: visuall.net
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 17, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Health, Inventions
Upside-Down Jeans
The latest look in weird denim is upside-down jeans from CIE Denim. The belt loops and pockets are at the bottom of the pants, around the legs, instead of at the top around the waist where they should be.Apparently they were inspired by the Netflix show Stranger Things, which features a parallel universe called the Upside Down. Though I'd be surprised if anyone made that connection just by looking at the jeans.
They come in shorts, which go for $385, and full jeans for $495.
via Huff Post
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 15, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Denim
Urine crystal bling
Fashion student Alice Potts has hit on the idea of adding some bling to clothes by embellishing them with crystals formed from bodily excretions such as sweat and urine. She says, "Instead of using plastic accessories to maybe embellish garments ... we can start like growing onto our garments these new materials and more natural materials."Her website: http://www.alicepotts.com
More info: Huff Post
I'm assuming she must have made the crystals using a technique similar to the one outlined in the video below. She just added urine or sweat in addition to the other ingredients.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 11, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Science
Do-it-yourself dress
Created by designer Betsey Johnson in 1966 and modeled below (for Life magazine) by Lauren Hutton."[Johnson's] do-it-yourself dress comes in three parts, a silk slip, a transparent plastic halter neck dress, and a bag of metallic paper cut-outs, all shapes and colors, that stick wherever planted. A girl can work out her own design and even change it every time she puts on her plastic dress."
Minneapolis Star Tribune - July 10, 1966
Minneapolis Star Tribune - July 10, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 24, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, 1960s
Mesh Jeans
There seems to be no limit to the weird things that designers can dream up to do with jeans.These "mesh jeans" from the designer Bless consist of vintage 501 Levi's that "feature an asymmetrical fold along the fly and a tan mesh panel down the full length of one side."
They retail for $590, but right now are on sale for a mere $236.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 18, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Denim
Ghost Fashion Show
A recent fashion show in Saudi Arabia remained "Ramadan appropriate" by showing the clothes minus the models. The dresses and gowns were hung from drones and then flown down the runway.More info (and a few more clips) here.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 08, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion
Hair Clothing
From 1969, a product that mysteriously failed to catch on: Jerome Alexander's line of human-hair clothing.He actually created a human-hair pants suit, skirt, and vest. (The pants suits, which is the only thing I could find a picture of, seems to have been only trimmed with human hair). But on the drawing board were a human-hair coat, bikini, tie, boots, and hat.
Esquire - Jan 1970
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Feb 12, 1969
Posted By: Alex - Sun May 27, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, 1960s
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