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Tag results: Clothes

Lint, Filtered

Like lint? This article is for you. Learn why dryers produce lint, and how the lint roller came into existence. It's the lintiest article you'll ever read.

Sweating the Ugly Truth

The history of the sweater—along with the tale of how a Vancouver house party made the ugly Christmas sweater into the pinnacle of modern ironic taste.

Why Aren't You Wearing Corduroy?

How corduroy, a piece of fabric with ancient ties that was built for the working-class, became really friggin' trendy all over again.

Cloth, Meet Plastic

A YouTuber uncovers a genuinely novel use for 3D printing: a method for making snazzy-looking T-shirts. The hard part? Passing the washing machine test.

Our Lives In Fabric

How T-shirts, those bastions of cotton, became the perfect way to wear our feelings, along with the easiest way to get dressed in the morning.
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