Dis Dressed: DressBarn Buys The Farm
Unfortunately named women's wear retailer DressBarn is slamming the door on 650 retail stores in 45 states as sales decline and branding loses focus. Barn Storm DressBarn made its debut in ...
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Dynamic Apparel: Flexible Charity-Designed Shoes Can Grow Up to 5 Sizes
In countries where walking barefoot is the norm, these durable shoes that grow with a child's feet can improve health, confidence, even school attendance, according to The Shoe That ...
Chain Mail for Space: NASA’s 4D-Printed Metal Fabric Deflects Debris
NASA's latest futuristic textile is made of metal but can fold and change shape, protecting a wearer (or covered craft) from dangerous collisions that could tear holes in people or ...
Digital Knitting Machine: Kniterate is a 3D Printer for Custom Apparel
Borrowing logic from the 3D printing industry, Kniterate lets users turn ideas and designs from digital files to one-off wearable garments in hours. Able to "print" shirts, scarves, sweaters, ...
Literal Streetwear: ‘Pirate Printer’ Lifts Patterns from Urban Objects
A Berlin art collective has taken to the streets, inking urban infrastructure and laying down shirts and tote bags to create a line of unique prints ... their patterns directly lifted from ...
Silk & Sadden: 15 Closed & Abandoned Lingerie Shops
The thrill is gone and so are the thongs! These 15 closed & abandoned lingerie shops have nobody else to blame for their sagging level of support. ...
Blocked Out: 10 Closed & Abandoned Hat-Making Factories
The golden age of hats – what George Costanza called a “bald paradise” - has long passed and along with it, so have hundreds of huge hat-making factories. ...
Dress Down: Wild Women’s Dresses Made of Trash, Trees & More
State of Dress is part fashion, part art and part personal mission, an attempt to capture the essence of all fifty States in the US through a series of site-specific dress designs tailored to ...
All Washed Up: 11 Abandoned Coin Laundries & Laundromats
Abandoned coin laundries, laundromats and washaterias (for you Texans) have proliferated as utility costs rise and prices for domestic machines fall. We've chosen artist Lori Nix's ...
The Way We Wore: 12 Clothesed & Abandoned Dry Cleaners
Martinize THIS! Factors such as cost, convenience and the creeping casualness of modern life have condemned countless dry cleaners to in-solvent-cy. ...
