WTF: Pollution Sensitive Dress Wrinkles On Smoggy Days

Wow, this sure is a conversation piece. Designer Stephanie Sandstrom has created a dress that responds to bad air – literally. It wrinkles up when you enter an area with bad air quality. The ‘EPA Dress’ isn’t just pretty and fashion-forward, it’s a way to avoid health hazards.

Inhabitat has it:

Designer Sandstrom has embedded her EPA dress with sensors that are able to intelligently read the surrounding atmosphere and in turn create telling kinks in the fabric’s surface. On days when the air quality is particularly poor, the EPA dress looks as if it has been pulled out of the laundry bin or from the back of one’s closet. It’s a scary prospect to think that our clothes might take on a texture of their own, but if this is a viable way for us to see our true selves or rather the state of our environment, well then, we are all for it!

Now you’ll always have an excuse on those days when you sleep in, run out of your apartment with your shoes in your hand and your toothbrush in your mouth trying to catch the A-train before you’re late for an important meeting and walk in looking like you slept in your clothes. You can just tell them you’re an eco-fashion warrior way ahead of your time!

Link [Inhabitat]
Photo credit: Will Meeker

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