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The girl who wore THAT dress
Mollie King, a pop star who once dated Prince Harry and her fashion fail.
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U.S. Flouts Its Own Advice in Procuring Overseas Clothing
One of the world’s biggest clothing buyers, the United States government spends more than $1.5 billion a year at factories overseas, acquiring everything from the royal blue shirts worn by airport security workers to the olive button-downs required for forest rangers and the camouflage pants sold to troops on military bases.
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The Secret World of Fast Fashion
From 1960s Korea, through Brazil, to today’s Los Angeles: Inside the world that brought you Forever 21—and those skinny jeans in your closet.
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The Cambodians who stitch your clothing keep fainting in droves
It should have been an extraordinary scene: more than 100 factory hands fainting in unison as if possessed by spirits. But in Cambodian garment factories, which play a major role in supplying American malls, mass fainting is no longer a freak phenomenon. It’s disturbingly common. The enigmatic problem is persistent despite waves of government studies, activist campaigns and vows to investigate factory conditions by global fashion empires such as H&M.
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The True Cost of Cheap Clothing
As cotton has evolved into one crop among many for Mississippi Delta farmers, it remains a central force in the vast, tangled, global textiles market—a market that includes producer/retailers like the United States, pure retail markets like the European Union, and the ligament between them: garment manufacturers like China and India, both of which also grow significant portions of the global cotton supply.
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How to Wash a Leotard
Leotards aren't the cheapest things to buy, and must be washed regularly to avoid needing to be replaced. Rather than sending them off to a dry cleaner where you would have to pay to have them cleaned, try washing them yourself at home!...
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Fake Clothing Drop Bins Use Your “Charity” Donations To Make a Profit
From Tampa to Charlotte to New York City, non-legit Goodwill boxes are proliferating
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Apple's 1986 Clothing Collection
Believe it or not, Apple - now the biggest tech company in the world - once ventured into the world of fashion, releasing an entire collection in 1986. A far cry from their current day minimal aesthetics, the "sports-casual" men's, women's and children's range was garish and loud, with many pieces featuring the Apple logo in a variety of colours.
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Fitle Will Let You Try Clothes On A 3D Avatar Of Yourself
When Charles Nouboue was in business school, he found he had little time to shop during regular store hours. But shopping online proved to be hard. “It’s difficult to find exactly what you want to buy,” Nouboue said. “It’s very complicated to find the right size.” That’s why he and his partner, Gaetan Rougevin-Baville, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund Fitle, a virtual fitting room that allows you to try clothes on a customized 3D avatar of yourself.
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That time Obama wore a tan suit and Twitter freaked out
President Barack Obama on Thursday took some questions in the White House press briefing room about serious subject matters - ISIS, Iraq, Syria, Russia. But the reaction on Twitter was largely focused on his rarely worn tan suit.
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Here's a $500 Dry-Cleaning Machine That Fits in Your Closet
Re-wearing, as they call it in the laundry biz, is on the rise. We, the clothes-owning populace, are getting hip to the fact that our garments typically aren’t all that dirty after a day’s wear, and we’re increasingly comfortable wearing them a second time without throwing them in the wash. The laundry biz has studies to confirm this.
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Urban Outfitters: Come For The Bloody Kent State Gear, Stay For Master Class In Terrible Apologies
Urban Outfitters, the clothing manufacturer and hipster closet-filler, was marketing a “Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt” for $129 earlier today. The sweatshirt is splattered with what appears to be blood. According to Urbanoutfitters.com, the sweatshirt is now sold out, probably because only one was available in the first place, as is the case with all of Urban’s “vintage” wares.
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Make your clothes stain-repellant with Sofft hydrophobic fabric softener
Hydrophobic materials –that is, materials that reject water at the molecular level– are quickly making their way into the mainstream. In the past couple years alone, we’ve seen the rise of nanoscale hydrophobic treatments for electronics, all-purpose hydrophobic sprays that can be applied to nearly anything, and even dishes that don’t need to be washed.
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New Fabric Softener Tech Promises Clothes That Never Stain
Sofft wants to kickstart a new age of clothes washing.
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China’s Smog Is So Bad It’s Affecting Fashion Trends
A new fashion trend hit the runways at China Fashion Week in Beijing this week, and it was well-timed considering the air quality outside. Models showed off a variety of designer respiratory face masks as they strutted down the catwalk, part of the QIAODAN Yin Peng Sports Wear Collection.
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Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK?
The zipper is one of those inventions—along with the bicycle—that seems as though it should have occurred much earlier in history. How complicated could it be to assemble two wheels, two pedals, and a chain? Or to align two jagged strips of metal teeth and shuffle them together?
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Engineers win grant to make smart clothes for personalized cooling and heating
Imagine a fabric that will keep your body at a comfortable temperature -- regardless of how hot or cold it actually is. That's the goal of an engineering project at the University of California, San Diego, funded with a $2.6M grant from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency -- Energy. Wearing this smart fabric could potentially reduce heating and air conditioning bills for buildings and homes.
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The next wave: micro-circuits embedded in clothing
Breakthroughs in low power consumption circuitry, sensors and flexible/bendable circuit boards are enabling the dramatic advancement of this rapidly emerging market segment.
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Prom Girl
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This Adorable Studio Ghibli Clothing Line Will Have Miyazaki Fans Rejoicing
Fans of the acclaimed Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli can rejoice. A new clothing line featuring trendy designs from Miyazaki's most iconic films is now available for fans to shop online.
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