Mankind is undaunted in its efforts to process as many products as possible into canned form, and when possible, to give those cans spray-on ability. Finally science has achieved the touchstone of sprayable clothing that surpasses the novelty of body paint.
Wired reports a British company has developed clothing that comes in a can. You spray the substance on your body and it forms a cohesive fabric.
“In my quest to produce this kind of fabric, I ended up returning to the principles of the earliest textiles such as felt, which were also produced by taking fibers and finding a way of binding them together without having to weave or stitch them,” a Spanish designer who helped develop the product told Wired.
Would products would you like to see canned and sprayable?
Make Clothes Out of a Can with Spray-on Fabric [Wired]
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“Would products would you like…” I would if a woodchuck would.
Hmmm… I’m thinking that the average American’s body shape will not sync well with sprayed-on clothing. Maybe the bony hipsters in Brooklyn will be early adopters, but I doubt that doughy middle-America will find such clothing quite so flattering…
also you would need help from someone else to get dressed
‘honey will you do my back?’
I’m glad I’m not the only person who thought this.
“Spandex is a privilege, not a right.”
I don’t think that stuff will go well when it gets caught in my thick winter pelt.
I was thinking “great something even more skin tight for douchebag frat boys and military guys to wear” Do you think they will be able to spray on a popped collar?
Sounds like an interesting idea in theory, but I’m not so sure there are a lot of physiques out there (mine included) that would look good (or better) in sprayed-on clothing. Of course, some people already wear clothes that might as well be sprayed-on…
Question: how easily would these “garments” be shed? Would solvents be required? Are they something like “Silly String”!? Inquiring minds want to know.
Truly inquiring minds read the article, which explains your questions as well as shows picture of the process.
RTFA?
I’m also curious about disposal of the garments. I mean, once one feels that the garment had outlived its purpose, will it become the next generation of product to glut the landfills, or will it be recyclable?
Also, being a hairy kind of guy, I don’t see it as an easy product to remove; and as a fair-skinned guy, I can easily see some sun-exposure issues with the way it lays across the skin. To me, there are too many kinks to work out before it’s viable.
Could they be edible?
No one wants to see my overweight body covered in a overweight body-shaped spray-on shirt.
If you read the article, it talks about medical uses. Specifically, spray-on bandages. Now THAT is a newsworthy article, and a very awesome technology.
That would be nifty.
Eeugh. The liquid paint-on bandage stuff you can already get is one of the most painful products I have ever had the misfortune to purchase, and I can’t imagine this being any better. The solvents that have to be used to keep it liquid enough to disperse do NOT feel good on any kind of skin abrasion or cut.
I don’t even like to take the time to *iron* clothing, let alone take 15-20 minutes to try and spray a shirt on.
I know, right? Like spraying on my clothes is something I’m going to want to do on a Monday morning when I’m running late and still wet from the shower as I step out the door.
I’m pretty fit, but even I would not wear something along the lines of spray-on clothing. I don’t like anything that clings to my skin. I’d be spazzing out. Also, how would this work with underpants?
Yeah, too much bas-relief in the crotch region.
I question the sustainability and the environmental impact.
What kinds of horrible chemicals would we be releasing, and spraying onto ourselves?
How durable would these fabrics be, would they be water or oil soluble? Would the shirts just dissolve in a heavy rain?
Never mind, RTFA!!
If they can be washed and re worn it is fairly obvious that they are not water soluble.
I’ve seen videos of women walking around in spray on “clothing”
I am very interested.
And given body hair exists, will this be like a free body wax every time you remove the spray on clothes?
I shudder to think.
Another stained shirt.
DAMNIT!
Once, I was driving through Ontario and I was very thirsty. I only had a dollar with me. I stopped at a rest area and found a Squirt machine. You know, Squirt Your Thirst and all that. I inserted my dollar and vended a can of Squirt. As I removed the can from the dispensing tray, I thought it felt odd. I opened it, and it actually contained a Squirt T-shirt reading “I Got Lucky” along with the Squirt logo. It was some kind of promotion. I was still thirsty.
+1 I just peed a little that was so funny.
I bet that story was well worth the dollar. I know it would be to me
Finally, I can stop wasting precious seconds slipping an old fashioned shirt on over my head. Now I can spend half an hour having an assistant spray my shirt directly onto my body and wait for it to dry.
The spray on bandage offshoot is a good idea, but the clothing aspect… not so much.
socks, man, socks
Ummmmm….no. I like a little room.
Talk about getting clothing entangled in your body hair. I can see the advertisement “spray on underwear. So everybody know when you happy to see them”.
that’s awesome. hole in my shirt?? spray spray
what hole? mauhaahah
That would also be awesome. Someone in the YouTube comments made the same suggestion.
I’m predicting an uptick in sexual harassment lawsuits.
How do you spray this on the back of yourself? Sounds like a two man project to me.
Sounds better as a man/woman (or whatever floats your boat) thing to me…
“But, Mom…I don’t wanna spray your back again…”
That’s pretty interesting. I could see someone with mad airbrush skills setting up a custom clothing shop.
Of course, he doesn’t mention that felt is made by taking those fibers and doing all sorts of evil things to them. (Steam, a lot of needles, and formerly, mercury)
Condoms.
This ostensibly combines two of the “GTL” trifecta into one singular, perfect event. Gym Spray Spray all day long. I’m pumping my fist and slamming a sparks right now.
What products do I want to see canned and sprayable?
I think the canned/sprayable products market really hit its zenith with the advent of EasyCheese.
Really, nowhere to go but down from there.
I for one look forward to a future of spray-on shirts and Candwiches.
Didn’t SNL invent this back in 1998.
“It’s burning my skin!”
“That’s how you know it’s a shirt”.
Can’t find a video, unfortunately.
http://snl.jt.org/detail.php?i=199810173
I think you’re thinking of Lower Back Tat remover.
Nope – there was definitely a Shirt in a Can ad. I wonder why there’s no video. That was one of SNL’s better fake ads.
IT’S BURNING MY SKIN!!!
That’s how you know it’s a shirt!
DAMMIT!
Brings the truth to the saying, “Those clothes look like they were sprayed/injection molded on”.
Came here for the spray on shoes reference, leaving disappointed.
Here:
Like the spray-on shoes from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! With less feet sweat!
No. no, it won’t.
Just like all of my t-shirts aren’t Hypercolor.
I still have one of those. Doesn’t work anymore.
I hope to someday come in a can.
Interesting idea. When it’s available in Emergency Pants, let me know.
I have a couple of problems with this product.
Unlike traditional clothing where there are interlocking “warp” and “weft” threads, this clothing consists of randomly aligned threads held together by an adhesive compound. I can’t see how this arrangement of clothing would last as long as traditional woven fabric. The YouTube “Scarf” video shows a fabric that looks like it has the durability of a sheet of double ply toilet paper.
Fabrics also have a tendency to shrink when placed in a dryer. As a result, any fitted clothing that is made with non-preshrunk fabrics will not fit the wearer after the first dry cycle. Given that this canned product only produces fitted clothing, it would appear that any clothing produced by this product would be considered “line dry only.”
In conclusion… I can see some medical and tailoring applications for this product. It would be excellent for spray on bandages or for quickly creating a fitted prototype clothing pattern. However, I do not see it being useful in a daily basis due to the problems mentioned above.
Sounds cool but the best part of the article is the link to reference spray on latex body paint….
I prefer the latex examples….uh thank you
Can it make you look like a cheap french harlot?
French?! :-/
Loooooo
Nope, only an expensive french harlot.
Like Amy Wong, we can just spray on new clothes.
I was wondering how long the Futurama reference would take.
I’m thinking, this would be not so good for the hairier-bodied end of the spectrum …
Maybe for emergencies. (I’m not sure what TYPE of emergencies you’d use it for though…lol..) Otherwise it’d take too darn long to spray on. And how do you reach your back? You’d need a second person.
A real shirt would just be easier.
Meh. Call me when they have spray-on wool suits.
I wouldn’t wear skin-tight clothing, but the first comment on the Wired article suggests that this might be good to *patch* worn or frayed clothing, which would be awesome if possible.
Sorry, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century featured body suits with zippers. I want those for day. I’ll save my Queen Amadalla nightwear preferences for my own tribe. Beedeeebeeedeee
What about hairy people? Wouldn’t their pray on clothes look like sweaters? Women would have to be careful in cold climates as well.
Someday Your Shirt Will Come In A Can
Someday your Can will covered by a Shirt.
There’s also paint on latex shirts if you’re into the goth music/industrial/trent reznor/leather and latex scene. I saw this at a sex shop in Missouri in 1995. The problem was you really had to have no body hair, it kind of mapped your pores and bumps and stuff and really made gross looking shirts.
I think the spay on clothing concept is meant as a technology demonstration/ proof-of-principle, not an end product.
This would be nice for socks because I hate wearing socks it’d probably feel more natural too.
These things will be the next piece of clothing banned by the Olympic organizing committee.
Two observations after I RTFA.
First, with all the aerosol this seems like a great way to further affect the environment in a negative way.
Second, I could see this being an absolute disaster for individuals like myself who don’t have the chest of a pre-pubescent boy. I would imagine that any chest hair would get woven in with the sprayable clothing and be extremely painful to remove.
I would suggest sticking with body paint for the people who can pull it off and regular clothes for the rest of society.
One can only imagine the absurdity of spray on underwear and pants…
peopleofwalmart.com dances with glee anticipating all the new pictures the site will receive of the horrid brain-bleach inducing fatrolls flying around like a box of donuts tossed into a ceiling fan.
Egad.