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...camouflage clothes that change colors to match the environment, vests and glasses with embedded computers, and electrospun clothing. The last involves a process in which a solution is charged with high-voltage electricity and spun, like cotton candy, onto a form. Military scientists want to use the process to custom-make instant haz-mat suits by spraying sealants onto clothing. But the prospects for nonwoven, seamless civilian clothing are tantalizing...
...M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown in the mid-'90s. Between December 2000 and July 2001, the Gucci Group snapped up Stella McCartney, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. Then there are individual specialty lines: Gucci has issued a series of made-to-measure handbags, and Bottega Veneta designer Thomas Maier offers custom-order services...
...Native Americans revered the peaceful custom of tobacco smoking and shared it with the first European colonists. For almost 400 years patrons of Boston’s taverns have derived comfort and pleasure from the habit...
Instead, since Nov. 20, the same location at the intersection of JFK Street and Mass. Ave. has featured an Alpha-Omega, a convenient three-story jewelry superstore, perfect for buying princess-cut diamonds in custom-designed settings. What more could the undergraduate community...
...thing's for sure with young buyers: custom sells. This fall American Eagle Outfitters, a clothing company, instructed its college-age buyers how to tear up T shirts and embroider jeans--and sold 12% more jeans in the process. Nike iD lets customers help design their own sneakers...