Graehm Gray: Warning! Wearing These Clothes Will Help You Lose Weight!
Can you believe it? A feat of fashion technology has been developed-“smart clothes” that help you know when you are sweating, clothes that can track vital changes in your system like your pulse and blood pressure, clothes that can tell you are under stress and clothes that help you lose weight! That’s right, you read it correctly. There are new fabrics that have been developed-now called “smart clothes” that are designed to move fashion to a new level-one that is closely aligned to your body. So not only will you look for the size and color, but you will decide on what attributes the clothes will help you with. This is not entirely a new field. After all, NIKE came out with their performance driven “Dri Fit” technology ( a hybrid microfiber and polyester fabric) that is able to quickly “wick” or absorb sweat away from the body-keeping the skin dry. Also NIKE has “Therma-FIT” which uses a fabric to keep cold air out and body heat in. Let’s not forget the clothing with “stain-resistance,” “wrinkle-free,” “water-proofing,” and “sun/UV-ray resistance.” Others with built in “bullet-proofing,” “insect repelling, “I-Pod docking stations,” “global-GPS,” and NASA’s astronaut clothing that keeps dust and space out. So it seems that the newest generation of “smart-clothing” has gone one step farther. Now, sweating in a shirt will reveal a slogan-or phrase and let everyone know that ...
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