The evolution of compression wear
Historical Background In the outdoor industry, it is often perceived that compression wear is a recent invention. Some brands address it as innovation, promoting their product as groundbreaking.
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History Of The Underpants
History Of The Underpants I was recently in the curiously awkward situation of discussing people’s underpants at a dinner party. Saturday night, three too many glasses of wine, eyes droopy and brain relaxed, the conversation is leading itself. Though I’d known my friends for a number of years, I was surprised when their preference…
TECHUNTER MAGAZINE: Wearing Tomorrow – Early Majority
Wearing Tomorrow – EARLY MAJORITY [Conversation] The clothing we see and consume everyday is created mostly in a very similar way, from the design stage, to production, to ending up in your closet – it is all a single never ending cycle that is decades old. So many people are involved in every step of…
Designing For An Ecosystem: Are We There Yet?
As recently as 2020, Earth’s anthropomass, the human-made non-bio mass (metals, concrete, bricks, glass, plastics) exceeded its living biomass (plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, viruses, humans).
J-Waling The PFW Catwalk
January 18. A couple of days after my friends’ wedding in Kochi, India, my body screams ‘Europe’. I had been in the country for just over two weeks and, although my spirituality and humility were nurtured by the experience, my body wasn’t. 5 days, a full body infection, and 41C temperature into my mistake to…
The Impact of AI Machine Learning on Today’s Design Community
Anything humans have discovered so far: electricity, fire, the energy of wind and water, has made life easier, work more efficient, survival more secure. But does this apply to AI as well?