Thursday 7 May 2015

An American clothing company claims to have invented a completely unstainable shirt

Elizabeth & Clarke make shirts and tops with
humorous names like “Liz Lemon” (a plain
white T-shirt) and “The Olsen” (an off-the-
shoulder long-sleeve and homage to the Row
designers). Now they’ve branched into
affordable wearable tech with a new line of
unstainable tops, which they plan to launch
next week after being pledged about 10 times
their goal on Kickstarter .

A stack engineer called Juau is behind the technology, which is pretty self-explanatory: the unstainable shirt is made from crepe de chine, so it looks normal enough, but it’s actually covered in a series of tiny fibres. These fibres use nanotechnology to repel virtually any water-based or oil- based liquid – beetroot, coffee, gob or sweat – making it evaporate before even touching the fabric. Because each fibre is 100,000 times smaller than a grain of sand, you can’t see or feel them, but they’re there, suspending the spilled liquid above the fabric and stopping it from ever reaching the shirt.-

Source-The Guardian

Much as i love white shirts, I hardly wear them due to my phobia for stains. This new technology could just be what I need.. Who feels the same way I do?

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