Sporty Fashion Blog

People evolve and so does fashion. The social scenario of a particular time period defines the fashion of that period. Nowadays fashion changes quite often, but previously fashion trends used to change, but quite slowly. Fashion has come a long way with each generation having a unique sense of fashion which is never static. Fashion is all about looking good; it’s all about feeling good about yourself. We all want to look good and attractive and this is reason we want to be with fashion not behind it. But when you drop in some store to buy fashionable clothes, do you ever take into account fashion history?

The inception of mankind is the inception of fashion. The Stone Age marks the start of the history of fashion. It all started with primitive stone-age people using articles like animal hides (skins), animal bones, shells and stones to adorn themselves. The history of fashion differs for different parts of the world. Even the evolution of fashion for each region in the world has been quite unique. Each century, or rather each decade has a fashion which speaks a lot about the taste and the nature of the people of that decade. In the seventeenth century, for example, buckled shoes came into fashion and were worn by men as well as women. Also feathered and non-feathered hats became a craze among the people during that period. More »

We shall be talking about something that’ll prove more obedient than your children, hubby or boyfriend; these are the clothing that listen, interact and react intelligently. Do we call them the iClothes?

Aptly named HearWear, these concept designs (credits go to Younghui Kim and Milena Iossifova) use the environmental decibel ranges that give you better hues to put on; these clothes create color patterns both actively and uniquely to keep at bay approaching vehicles that might otherwise fling you across a light post.

Under the hood, it’s all the gimmickry of technological advancements; it’s a microprocessor attached with a microphone that stay integrated seamlessly as a single unit with LEDs and electro-luminescent wires. The versatility of the technology also makes them compatible for use with belts and bags.

For the more technologically inclined, it is a custom-engineered PCB (printed circuit board) with chip-level programming that interprets external stimuli (sound and light) in an innovative way. There is also a sound recognition module that is driven by the micro-controller to analyze varying noise patterns and sends back the data to activate the LEDs and the EL wire. More »