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Union made Converse clones

August 16, 2004 / Klint Finley

I’ve been meaning to mention the No Sweat sneakers for some time. While Adbuster’s “Black Spot” sneaker may never see the light of day, you can already pick up a pair union manufactured kicks.

I like the idea of using union labor in foreign countries to both bring jobs to developing nations and to ethically manufacture materials (and likely still for a lower price than using U.S. labor).

I’d like to see some edgier Puma-esque designs available. Also, No Sweat offers an entire line of union made clothing, but their stuff’s not very stylish.

Toilet Paper Fashion

October 29, 2002 / Klintron

A gallery of pictures of people dressed in clothes made out of toilet paper.

Ze Frank: Toilet Paper Fashion Contest

Futuristic Fashion Catalog

September 24, 2002 / Klintron

XNX Designs has a catalog of clothes that look like they could have been on the cover of Mondo 2000.

XNX Designs

(via Die Puny Humans

Political Statements in Runway Fashion

September 24, 2002 / Klintron

If runway fashion is an art, then I suppose it makes sense that it’s being used as an avenue for political expression.

David Delfin presented a show in Madrid with hooded designs resembling “burqa head-coverings that women in Afghanistan had to wear when the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban were in power.” CNN: Death hoods bring fashion protest (via Drudge Report)

Saudi haute couture artist Yehya al-Bashri created a bloody stained dress with a picture of a tank on it to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestine. NY Post: Dressed to Kill on Day Terror Returns to Israel (via Drudge Report).

Fashion Savvy Wearable Computing on the Way

February 22, 2002 / Klintron

Pioneer Corp has hired fashion designer Michie Sone and industrial designer Naoki Harasawa to create hip wearable computers. They’re using organic electroluminescent material the thickness of paper to integrate screens into clothing.

Taipei Times: Wearable computers about to hit the racks

(via NooFace)

Wearable computing source

October 5, 2001 / Klintron

DIY smart glasses

AE Innovations offers a number of homemade wearable computers and other cool hardware hacks. Dope stuff includes: a wearable 386, e-shades, and an open source IDE mp3 player. Link via /.

Shirt That Rolls Up Own Sleaves, Super Human Strength

July 29, 2001 / Klintron

A shirt that rolls up its own sleeves and never needs ironing was unveiled at a “tech-savvy Italian fashion house.”

The fabric for the prototype shirt is woven from fibres of the shape-memory alloy nitinol, interspersed with nylon. The alloy can be deformed, and then returned to its original shape when heated to a certain temperature.

Also, “A robotic exoskeleton has been created by Japanese researchers to allow nurses to lift patients effortlessly – and without damaging their backs.”

(links via Boing Boing)

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