This week we’re replaying some of our favorite shows about clothes and the people who wear them.

Luis Carlos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and his top hat. Photo via Wikicommons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conde_d%27%C3%81quila.jpg

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!


A green mini T-shirt made of photosynthetic living materials. (University of Rochester photo)

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.


A fluffy orange cat with a plastic bag. (Photo by Stratman via Flickr/Creative Commons https://flic.kr/p/qqdZef)

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.


Sunglasses and fabric. (Photo by Rosmaria Voegtli via Flickr/Creative Commons https://flic.kr/p/2kzLQ91)

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.


Elvis Presley jumpsuit (photo by Terry Ballard via Flickr/Creative Commons https://flic.kr/p/8eFHzn)

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.

Photo by Michael Mandiberg via Flickr/Creative Commons