Alternative Clothing Resources

[Spacescifi]

 

I am amazed...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14804965/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/shirt-made-chicken-feathers/#:~:text=Chicken feathers and rice straw,resembling wool%2C linen or cotton.

https://spinnova.com/archives/news/spinnova-and-fortum-present-the-worlds-first-waste-straw-based-clothes/#:~:text=Fortum and Spinnova are showcasing,fabric on organic cotton warp.

 

Apparently.... the better tech we have the more clothing resources we can exploit.

One day we may make living plant clothes that need to be watered on occasion.

Nothing a little sweat cannot help perhaps.

 

Edited September 2, 2020 by Spacescifi

[Cattette]

Hope my clothes dont die from the salt in my sweat

[Spacescifi]

12 minutes ago, Cattette said:

Hope my clothes dont die from the salt in my sweat

 

That's only a bio-engieering challenge. Not impossible to solve.

Easy solution? Wipe a wet rag over it occasionally.

Harder but more obvious solution? If we bioengineer living breathing plant clothes then making them them able to handle human sweat seems a prerequisite.

[DDE]

3 hours ago, Cattette said:

Hope my clothes dont die from the salt in my sweat

Can the saline solution be used to power a battery?

[kerbiloid]

Due to the modern trend, the chicken feathers are obsolete.

https://ipiff.org/insects-novel-food-eu-legislation/

Chitin. We need clothes made of chitin from the eaten crickets.

(Invokes @cubinator as maybe a future magnate.)

[cubinator]

1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

Due to the modern trend, the chicken feathers are obsolete.

https://ipiff.org/insects-novel-food-eu-legislation/

Chitin. We need clothes made of chitin from the eaten crickets.

(Invokes @cubinator as maybe a future magnate.)

You'd want to keep it from sclerotizing in most parts if you wanted any comfort, but otherwise it would make for some badass armor. Perhaps a spacesuit?

[kerbiloid]

1 minute ago, cubinator said:

Perhaps a spacesuit?

Spoiler

 

[SOXBLOX]

Living clothes? That would be a fad at best, and horribly impractical. Not to mention that herbaceous plant stems generally don't have the tensile strength to resist tearing. Using these for work clothes would be kinda silly.

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

 

[Spacescifi]

56 minutes ago, SOXBLOX said:

Living clothes? That would be a fad at best, and horribly impractical. Not to mention that herbaceous plant stems generally don't have the tensile strength to resist tearing. Using these for work clothes would be kinda silly.

 

I would be fine with a shirt made from living flower fabric.

Sweet smelling and cool.

Special casual wear. Indoors. Otherwise it will attract the bees.

[cubinator]

34 minutes ago, Spacescifi said:

I would be fine with a shirt made from living flower fabric.

Sweet smelling and cool.

Special casual wear. Indoors. Otherwise it will attract the bees.

Definitely. I live for the day we all have options as extravagant as these.

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

Feathers. As you wish.

[Scotius]

Polynesian islanders made fabric out of tree bark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapa_cloth

[Spacescifi]

1 hour ago, cubinator said:

Definitely. I live for the day we all have options as extravagant as these.

That's why my scifi will include it!

[mikegarrison]

3 hours ago, Scotius said:

Polynesian islanders made fabric out of tree bark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapa_cloth

Sure. Cedar bark fibers were used for clothing by the people of the Pacific Northwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_bark_textile

Other kinds of tree bark were traditionally used for fabric also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkcloth

[Guest]

A bit of a different angle, but consider clothing with built in cooling systems. Basically, a jacket that would have small Peltier coolers or coolant tubes sewn into the lining, and radiators on the outside, powered by a small and light futuristic battery. As an added bonus, if the radiator tubes could be made small enough, they could be arranged into embroidery-like patterns. 

Would be hard to achieve with a plant, but a nice idea on hot days, regardless.

[tater]

Spoiler

 

 

[cubinator]

1 hour ago, Dragon01 said:

A bit of a different angle, but consider clothing with built in cooling systems. Basically, a jacket that would have small Peltier coolers or coolant tubes sewn into the lining, and radiators on the outside, powered by a small and light futuristic battery. As an added bonus, if the radiator tubes could be made small enough, they could be arranged into embroidery-like patterns. 

Would be hard to achieve with a plant, but a nice idea on hot days, regardless.

We're back to wearing bees. Bees cool their hives by flapping their wings together. So you just wear a beehive jacket full of bees. If you wear your flower shirt underneath, it will produce honey on the go.

[Nuke]

when you dart your 50th squirrel you get a free coat. natures equivalent to one of those cards you get punched every time you get coffee or whatever.

turtles also come with free dinnerware.

Edited September 3, 2020 by Nuke

[Listy]

18 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

One day we may make living plant clothes that need to be watered on occasion.

Nothing a little sweat cannot help perhaps.

I'm pretty sure my sports socks are alive, and they thrive on a healthy diet of sweat

Sphagnum peat moss was widely used (& still is a bit) for wound bandaging and for nappies/diapers due to its highly absorbent and antimicrobial properties. I'm pretty sure it's dried out when used but some mosses can be revived after long periods of being dry, so it could be considered alive perhaps.

[kerbiloid]

3 hours ago, Nuke said:

when you dart your 50th squirrel

the 51th one gets the idea

Spoiler

and starts bringing ransom