This week we’re replaying some of our favorite shows about clothes and the people who wear them.
The First Top Hat Got Its Inventor Arrested
In 1797, haberdasher John Hetherington reportedly walked onto the streets of London wearing the first top hat, which caused so much hubbub that he was arrested and fined for disturbing the peace!
Bioprinting Clothes (And More) Out Of Algae
A research team has found a way to bioprint a strong, flexible and eco-friendly material that could one day serve as fabric for t-shirts, energy storage for space missions and much more.
The Plastic Bags Of Today Could Be The Fashionable Fabric Of Tomorrow
Those bags that we don’t want to throw out but can’t always easily recycle? We might end up wearing them.
The Fabric With A Built-In Cooling System
Maybe everyone in junior high was right: the clothes you wear really can make you cool! At least if those clothes are the new fabric developed in China with a kind of cooling system embedded inside.
The Jumpsuit Century
There’s nothing more fashionable than the jumpsuit, right? Right? Anyway, it was a century ago that the Italian artist Thayaht proposed a one-piece garment with buttons down the front as the next big thing in fashion.
