Awesome Stuff: Updating Classic Clothing
from the got-something-to-wear? dept
For this week's awesome stuff post of interesting crowdfunding projects, we're going to take a look at some clothing projects.- First up, is Sweat Tailor, an attempt to make sweat pants... that are actually decent pants you can wear out and about. Generally speaking, sweat pants tend to be crappy quality stuff that doesn't really fit, that you wear around at home. However, these guys are trying to make sweat pants that are made more like regular pants (including sizing), so that people can have the comfort of sweat pants, but still be more comfortable wearing them when they go out.
- Okay, how about some swim shorts that don't get wet. Fabrics that don't get wet have been around for quite some time (in fact, our head of research, Michael Ho, worked at a company making such fabrics many years ago). They're frequently referred to (somewhat inaccurately) as naontech fabrics and clothing, and that description has stuck. In this case, they've applied it to swim shorts (again, not a totally new concept), but it still gets some attention. The video for this project cheats a bit, because they just squirt a little bit of water on the shorts, rather than show what happens when someone actually wears them in a pool or ocean. In fact, they never even show anyone wearing them which seems a little sketchy. Also, they never really specific what technology is really in the fabric, but most of the options out there to date aren't really all that comfortable, and don't really breath that well. That might not be too pleasant for swim trunks.
- And, finally, we've got the Quarter Century Belt. While the first two projects were about trying to update some classic forms of clothing, this one is more about looking back. Recognizing that we rarely build wardrobe pieces that last any more, these guys are building a belt that comes with a 25 year guarantee. There's not much more to it than that, other than that they're insisting that it's high quality, but not for designer belt prices.
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Sweatpants
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expected better, but not surprised...
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I think sweat pants are great..
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Sweatpants?
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Good leather belt?
The problem I have with this, is that in 1 DAY I can show you how to make your OWN..and then YOU could be in a kickstarter..
When did we loose the Crafting in this country?
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And right now, you can get much cooler belts that probably will last as long:
http://www.duvallleatherwork.com/shop/british-snake-buckle-belt/
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It's a fairly simple process: You buy the cloth, the pattern, the thread -- and sew it together. It's not as if they're designing a space suit for the next Moon landing. Even someone who is not in that profession can easily make various items of clothing at home (perhaps dusting off Grandma's old sewing machine).
But on the other hand it probably makes much more sense than spending a fortune buying some "designer" clothing made in a Vietnamese sweatshop.
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I can understand things that involve up-front engineering costs, or making forms or dies or special tools beforehand, or type-setting, or other fixed costs that require a large minimum order to be feasible. But not for simple things that can be made essentially one at a time, every few minutes.
While it's a basic rule of manufacturing that the larger the order, the lower the cost per unit, that doesn't seem to be the relevant factor here, as these things (like many on Kickstarter) seem to be priced far above the retail cost of an equivalent mass-produced item.
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That's not what I said. What I said was that it takes many months to develop a revenue stream sufficient enough to allow you to break even. In the meantime, you're living off of your initial investment.
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>sweatpants
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Waterproof Swim Shorts - How you would wash them? Can they even be washed?
Quarter Century Belt - Have they a 25 year old prototype to prove the longevity?
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Leather belts
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