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Reason October 2006 Ronald Bailey |
Artifact: Natural or Synthetic? Featured at a fashion show last July at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, a skirt's fabric was woven from a new compostable biotech fiber Ingeo, made from dextrose corn sugar.  |
AskMen.com Brandon Dyce |
Breathe Easy Fashion For men prone to excessive sweating, fashion can be a real sauna, but there are good fabrics out there for guys who sweat.  |
Wired October 2001 Andrew Tilin |
Slick as Teflon! Tough as Kevlar! Limber as Lycra! Nonwoven polyethylene polymers like those from DuPont's startup Neotis Studio are ripping open the fabric of fashion reality...  |
Entrepreneur November 2009 Valli Herman |
Irons Need Not Apply For business travelers, a new breed of wrinkle-free cotton means rumpled days are over.  |
Chemistry World March 2008 Maria Burke |
Green Couture Synthetic fibers are back in fashion after an ecological makeover.  |
AskMen.com Alex Muniz |
Self-Maintaining Clothes Cotton that never wrinkles. Polyester that doesn't cling. Welcome to the world of self-maintaining clothes.  |
AskMen.com June 8, 2009 Adam Fox |
American Apparel Tri-Blend Short Sleeve Track Shirt This Tri-Blend Short Sleeve Track Shirt may be strangely reminiscent of your junior high gym uniform, but the fit and feel have luckily matured into something worth wearing.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Neil Savage |
Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers  |
AskMen.com Jenn Cox |
Stylish Winter Underwear Some stylish winter underwear for men in a variety of fabrics to suit your style.  |
Chemistry World September 1, 2011 Yuandi Li |
Self-cleaning fabrics now even cleaner US scientists have made a self-cleaning fabric that lasts longer, shows better antibacterial action and is more comfortable to wear than current materials.  |
AskMen.com Michael A. Lubarsky |
Superhero Fabrics These superhero fabrics might help protect you from bullets, knives and blasts.  |
Adventure Jun/Jul 2004 |
Ask Adventure Beyond bare necessities, sandals, coffee, towelettes, duct tape, and binoculars make camp-life easier... Designing moisture-wicking garments took some ingenuity by chemical engineers.  |
Chemistry World October 20, 2011 Rebecca Brodie |
New Power for Smart Garments Scientists in the US have taken the first steps towards designing a flexible and lightweight fabric that can act as a power supply for smart garments.  |
National Defense January 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Garment Maker Touts New Hot Weather Uniform As the United States military eyes the Asia-Pacific region, one manufacturer has designed a new fabric that breathes in hot weather and jungle conditions.  |
Outside April 2007 Kate Siber |
Performance Corn Apparel makers embrace wicking coconut shells, beech-wood shirts, and other miracle materials  |
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Mike Allen |
You Shocked Me All Ride Long: Auto Clinic Fights Static The same laundry product that keeps clothes from clinging stops your car seat from sticking your hair up with static electricity.  |
Chemistry World October 26, 2010 |
Waterproof Cotton That Can go Through the Wash Chinese researchers have made cotton fabric that is completely impervious to water and can be put through the laundry without losing its superhydrophobic properties, overcoming a key obstacle in the commercialisation of these highly waterproof materials.  |
AskMen.com Farah Averill |
American Apparel Tri-Blend Rib Cardigan A relaxed fit, five-button closure cardigan is an ideal addition to a fall wardrobe centered around the season's lived-in style.  |
AskMen.com August 15, 2003 Chris Rovny |
Stay Cool At Work On Hot Summer Days Some simple yet effective ways to help you look good, but more importantly, help you keep cool when the heat is on.  |
AskMen.com Farah Averill |
Champion Double Dry Men's Polo Shirt The preppy polo gets a an update for spring.  |
Chemistry World September 1, 2011 Laura Howes |
Green fire retardant swells to suppress flames Jamie Grunlan's team at the University of Texas A&M, US, has used layer by layer deposition to coat fabrics with a thin, environmentally benign, fire retardant layer of polymers.  |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Landscape Fabrics Try the easy way to a weed-free yard this summer. Landscape fabrics eliminate weed growth around trees and shrubs for years, saving the time and energy you'll spend weeding and spraying herbicides.  |
AskMen.com James Matheson |
Thomas Pink Shirts Whether for the workplace or a casual night out, these textured cotton dress shirts are a must-have wardrobe item.  |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Jacob Roche |
Don't Buy In to Cotton's Head Fake Cotton prices are falling, but expect retailers to continue struggling.  |
AskMen.com March 5, 2010 |
Reiss Checked Shirt Reiss' checked shirt is made from fine cotton and its simple sophistication is in perfect harmony with other refined spring separates in lightweight materials such as wool, cotton or linen.  |
AskMen.com Jeremy Berger |
Brooks Brothers Black Fleece Spread Collar Shirt With this Brooks Brothers spread collar shirt you'll be able to dress like Gordon Gekko without having to liquidate companies, steal information or punch Bud Fox in the face.  |
DailyCandy March 24, 2006 |
You and Your Calvins Quality repair for any worn, torn, or tattered denim, using a unique reconstructive technique that weaves new cotton fibers into the existing fabric.  |
Inc. November 1, 2009 April Joyner |
Can a Do-It-Yourself Fabric Company Craft a Larger Following? Marketing strategies for Spoonflower, a crowdsourcing site for fabric design.  |
Chemistry World August 17, 2010 Carol Stanier |
Wet weather coatings Ever wished that your waterproof jacket could actively remove water from the inside? Tong Lin at Deakin University, Australia, and his colleagues coated a porous polyester fabric on both sides with a mixture of titanium dioxide and organosilanes.  |
AskMen.com June 14, 2002 James Matheson |
The Best Shirts For Summer Chances are that those older shirts in your closet just don't cut it anymore. Adding a shirt or two to your collection might be exactly what you need to spruce up that boring wardrobe.  |
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Style Icon: John F. Kennedy Achieving JFK's seaside style, the the look of youthful power at play, requires attention to detail.  |
Fast Company August 2005 Chuck Salter |
Protect This House Kevin Plank's improbable hit -- a sweat-wicking undershirt -- kicked off the fastest-growing category of sportswear. Now Nike and other megabrands are in hot pursuit of Under Armour. Welcome to the disrupter's dilemma.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 |
Market for Computer-Based `Smart Clothing' May Reach $700 Million by 2010 The smart fabrics and interactive textiles (SFIT) and wearables markets is roughly $400 million today in fragmented, unprofitable revenue, and may reach $700 million in break-even or marginally profitable revenue by 2010, say analysts  |
Fast Company August 2005 Chuck Salter |
No Sweat Like many upstarts, Under Armour made a splash with a breakthrough product, then promptly found itself facing Goliaths. Here's how an unlikely giant killer is protecting its house from megabrands like Nike.  |
AskMen.com June 4, 2003 Karin Eldor |
The Styles Of Summer 2003 Ahh, summer is finally in the air, and so are the comfortable fabrics that go along with it.  |
AskMen.com Maggie Kalogeropoulos |
Suit Fabric & Thread Count A rundown of everything you need to know about suits so that you can pick out the perfect one for yourself.  |
National Defense October 2011 Eric Beidel |
New Fabrics Promise Better Fire Protection For IED-Battered Troops Scientists at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center know that pockets can save lives and that sewing them onto the Army uniform at an angle can curb injury after an explosion by channeling flames away from the face.  |
IndustryWeek January 20, 2010 Jonathan Katz |
U.S. Textile Manufacturing Lives Just when you thought textile manufacturing in the United States was dead, a new cotton yarn mill has begun production in Louisiana.  |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Robert Eberhard |
Mixing Friends and Stocks Foolishly Friends can be a good place to start when looking for companies to research.  |