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http://mashable.com/2013/02/06/transparent-dress/
A Netherlands-based fashion designer has created a high-tech dress line that turns clear when you get excited. How's that for being transparent on a date?
Called Intimacy from designer Daan Roosegaarde, founder of Studio Roosegaarde the project aims to explore the relationship between technology and the body's interactions. The dresses, which are called 'Intimacy White' and 'Intimacy Black,' are made out of opaque smart e-foils. When the body gets excited and the heart races, the coils turn clear.
The smart foils have a blend of wireless technology, LED lights, cooper and other materials. "Social interactions determine the garmentsʼ level of transparency, creating a sensual play of disclosure," the company says on its site.
Although the concept isn't entirely new the company has been working on prototypes since 2010 its new 2.0 line has been making its rounds online in advance of Valentine's Day. The dresses are currently on display privately in Hong Kong and Paris and will be shown at Kent State University in Ohio in September.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)I am dissapoint.
wandy
(3,539 posts)Sexy? You bet! whohoooo. Bring it on!
Something I want to encounter at the grocery store?
Meh. I think I'll pass on that, thank you.
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)Now wouldn't that be the way of it laddy.
HA Ha.
cbrer
(1,831 posts)Or him I guess!
Life got more complicated for me when all these cultures and subcultures emerged. I think it's great in terms of personal freedom, and transparent clothing. Guess I'll have to make a trip to Kent St.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)we all know there are knuckledragging throwbacks that will take this as a message.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I'm standing right behind you and just threw up.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)in the appropriate time and place. Not necessarily good for grocery shopping as mentioned above, but one suspects that it would not be worn there.
Arkansas Granny
(31,517 posts)I wouldn't bet on not seeing someone wearing something like this.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)so yeah, I get into a store everyday and I see all sorts of "interesting" people and such.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)And your heart is racing, and your blood is pumping... don't get out of the car, or you will cause more accidents?
theKed
(1,235 posts)it would make it easier for paramedics to see where your injuries are? Maybe?
(How you look is probably the least of your worries at that point, probably, anyways)
Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)and the reason for the elevated heart rate was because your insurance was going to sky rocket.
I personally think this would be great for jogging suits. Jogging along, get too hot, heart rate gets too high, boom, naked. now you gotta slow down, cover up, hide behind a garbage can. Let your body relax a bit. Would cut down on heart attacks and heat stroke.
theKed
(1,235 posts)If you know what I mean. Giggity.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)When we get "turned" on, those flat front cotton dockers and/or wrangler jeans don't do much to conceal it. Embarrassing.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)be it nipples or a dick. but, that is not what the dress is about. put the pants on the men, then lets talk. when everyone gets a flash of everyone, then we are on a level playing field.
dawg
(10,624 posts)You are right. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I once had a pair of white swim trunks that turned out to be the worst of all possible worlds. After they had been washed a few times, they still looked fine dry. But once they got wet, the white fabric turned totally transparent.
At least my wife enjoyed the swim that day.
dawg
(10,624 posts)if not for all of the other people in the pool.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)youth and living in calif. everything was pretty transparent with what we wore, day in and day out. was a norm.
we didnt do nudity the way we do today. it was much more freeing and egalitarian in the odd kinda way. today it is all about imbalance, control, domination. i think it is sad.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)Or so. May as well use saran wrap as someone said.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)and it is not about the guy. it would be for the women. that is the point.
always looking at it from the mans sexuality.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)You can be standing watching a horse running around a field or fanny craddock baking cakes and old man wood pops up. Hence the tech would short out rather quickly.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)high school. It's bad enough you have to try to hide your junk under your desk when teacher's asking for somebody to do that math problem at the board!
Ah, who am I kidding. I'd still be walking around in see-through clothes 75% of the time! It's the black leggings with the knee-high boots, people! This fashion trend cannot coexist with my "Turned On Jeans!"
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)It's called "Saran Wrap".
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I hated junior high...
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Trips to the blackboard (showing my age here) were pure misery lol
Recursion
(56,582 posts)when one of the girls asked "you mean guys can just get erections? it doesn't mean they were playing with themselves?" We all slammed our foreheads into our desks.
roody
(10,849 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)The photo doesn't really show anything to indicate that she's unhealthy. I know a girl who is a size zero, but perfectly healthy. That's just her nature.
MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)are you just happy to see me.
dawg
(10,624 posts)I would be really curious to see which women would start wagging their tails whenever I walked through the door. Would it be the ones I expect? Would there be some that would surprise me?
Of course, tail wagging would just indicate affection, and sexual attraction doesn't necessarily have anything to do with that. Still, it would be nice information to have. if only to see whether my innate male intuition has any accuracy at all in these matters.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)And guys could have dog ones as we are kinda dumb like dogs.
rug
(82,333 posts)kudzu22
(1,273 posts)It's not working...
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)and she gets excited from fear instead of desire and her heart races? I can see controversy over defense attorneys in court trying to introduce the dress in evidence to claim it wasn't rape because her dress said "yes".
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)rape... pffft, she was asking for it.
Nine
(1,741 posts)Though I hadn't thought of it in such literal terms. I was thinking more about the symbolism. How long have we been saying, "No means no," regardless of what a man thinks a woman is communicating through her attire or body language or other "signals"? And now we have a dress that purports to speak for a woman regarding her sexual readiness and literally undress her before the man's eyes. Instead of the old, "Your lips say no, but your eyes say yes," we'll have, "but your dress says yes."
Of course, I think this is more of an academic critique. I don't see the dress hitting the stores anytime soon. From an artistic standpoint, I think this is an innovative use of new technology. As for the other aspects, opening up a discussion about such issues may have been part of the artist's/designer's intent.
If a version of the dress ever did hit stores, the only real use I could see for it would be to wear for a romantic evening at home with your husband or trusted partner.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Do they need the National Guard to, uh, guard them?
BigAnth
(320 posts)such as those used in calculator and digital watch displays, TVs and also, I assume, in this unusual application. The Glen H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute was founded at Kent State Universtity in 1965.
Nine
(1,741 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,477 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)Oh.... Well guys need fashion too.
Stupid, and my guess unreliable and very expensive.