It’s Fashion Week on Cool Weird Awesome
This week we’re replaying some of our favorite shows about clothes and the people who wear them.
In A Letter From Ancient Babylon, A Teenager Complains To His Mom About Clothes
On this National Fashion Day, we have a letter from 3,800 years ago that shows some things never change, like teenagers nagging their parents for a fancier set of clothes.
The Most Poisonous Wallpaper Ever Had Arsenic In It
The new book "Bitten by Witch Fever" by Lucinda Hawksley highlights hundreds of wallpaper patterns from the UK in the 19th century, a time when some of the pigments in those papers were made from arsenic. Yes, the poison.
The Mullet Is Timeless, And Its Name Comes From The Beastie Boys
The mullet may take you back to the 70s or 80s, but it's a timeless hairstyle. No, really: there's evidence that the ancients were wearing business in the front, party in the back thousands of years ago.
Living Fabrics Make The World Greener As They Make Us Look Fancy
There's a whole world of sustainable materials for clothing that will have less of an impact should they end up in landfills - some don't just have low carbon footprints, they have negative carbon footprints!
Checking In To The House Plant Hotel
The online plant store Patch is offering to take care of the house plants for you while you’re on holiday, in what it’s calling the world’s first plant hotel.