Cheap Spray-On Clothes Set to Revolutionize the Way We Buy and Wear Clothes - Associated Content |
| Cheap Spray-On Clothes Set to Revolutionize the Way We Buy and Wear Clothes - Associated Content Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:57 AM PDT So mum gets up in the morning and yells at the kids: "Get up, you lot. Get washed - and spray your clothes on." It could happen.  Fabrican is a liquid fabric which you spray on your body creating instant clothes and no this isn't April the first. Spray-on fashion is definitely in that squiggle-eyed 'what-in-the-holy-moly-will-they-think-of-next?' category. But it's real. Science fact not science fiction. The proud inventors of Fabrican clothes in a can are Dr Manel Torres and Professor Paul Luckham, researchers at Imperial College London. Imperial College is known for its scientific and technical expertise and Torres and Luckham have spent ten years shut up in its laboratories developing their aerosol fabric. Their expectation is that it will forever change the way we dress and think about fashion. Dr Torres was a student at London's Royal College of Art when he hit on the idea of developing a spray-on fabric. Studying for an MA in women's fashion, he decided to find a particle technologist and have a go at developing clothes in a can. Professor Luckham joined the project and Fabrican was invented. It's a fabric that sprays textile particles and solvent directly onto your skin. Doesn't sound nice does it? Apparently though, it feels fine, dries instantly into a reasonably tough fabric and doesn't irritate even the most sensitive skin. You can literally spray on a T-shirt, over a bra if you want, add different colours and patterns and the garment can be peeled off like an ordinary T-shirt. And washed and worn again. Fabrican's not commercially available yet but different fibers will be marketed and the cans will cost around 15 dollars each. You can see dresses and other fashion items being created - sprayed on, that is - here. At first, I guess most people are likely to think Fabrican is a silly product. I did. After all, what problem is it trying to solve? Who ever said "I'm so fed up pulling these shorts on. Why can't I can't just spray them on?" It seems Fabrican is cold to spray on and it can at present take ten minutes or more to spray on a garment. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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