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...Thus stain-resistant trousers. The idea of pants as a bib is one whose time has come. Levi's Dockers brand has unveiled its Go Khaki with Stain Defender line. Treated with DuPont Teflon, these trousers allow the wearer to spill any "oil or water-based liquid" (e.g., beer, salad dressing) and have it bead up and roll off. Earlier this year, Lee introduced its Performance Khaki, which uses Nano-Care, microscopic whiskers that repel spills...
...lowest of the low in the fashion hierarchy. Surrounded by a mountain of ruffles, an abundance of silk and a stubborn rabbit pee stain, I spent my summer as a fashion assistant at Australian Vogue. Fashion assistants are generally held in about as much esteem as tapered-leg pants and Christina Aguilera; in a world where glamor is most accurately measured in units of champagne consumed, I lived the lifestyle of a teetotaller. Similarities between me and fellow novice “fash-mag” employee Carrie Bradshaw end with our riotous hairdos...
...Samuels cotton voile broderie anglaise dress. I had begun to think in terms of such minutiae as “broderie anglaise” routinely, as one of my many dogsbody tasks included writing captions for clothes featured in photo shoots. In the other hand, I clutched industrial-strength stain remover which, even after hours of intense scrubbing, had failed to remove the aforementioned rabbit pee stain from the Samuels original...
...dust motes would construct everything from chairs to rocket engines, atom by atom; in which microscopic robots would heal human ills, cell by cell. Sixteen years after the publication of Drexler's book Engines of Creation, the molecular-scale technologies most immediately available to consumers are somewhat less fantastic: stain-resistant khakis and more durable tennis balls...
...chemical process that adds "nano-whiskers" to cotton fabrics and renders them wrinkle and stain resistant explains new products from Eddie Bauer and Lee Jeans. The fabrics were developed by Nano-Tex, a Greensboro, N.C., company that is 51% owned by Burlington Industries, a textile firm that is struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. Nano-Tex has also developed active-wear fabrics that disperse and dry sweat. Later this year, it will launch a line, destined for socks, underwear and T shirts, that will channel body odors through the structure of the fibers...