Showing posts with label Uniform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uniform. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

No wash Cotton ( or should that read self cleaning)

One of the major issues in space is having to expensively upload clean clothing (this in the physical sense, as we do not use avatars to run our space hotels,pizza parlours or even tourists) as no one has really sorted out how to wash clothes...


even worse is that all the dirty clothing, gets put into one of the supply rockets, along with all the other rubbish and shot back towards earth to burn up in the atmosphere. Hmm not very green I hear you thinking... However moves are being made in China to produce cotton garments coated with Titanium Dioxide which when exposed to sunlight eats odours and stains. The full article on the BBC is here.

The Japanese have also got in on the act with antibacterial underware entitled J-Ware tested in 2009 and designed and researched by the "Near-Future Space-Living Unit" group led by Prof. Yoshiko Taya of Japan Women's University.


All of these things may seem a little far fetched  but if people are going to be working on the moon or in floating orbital hotels these issues are going to be critical, Mega rich tourists will not wish to be served by hosts and hostesses with BO



Thursday, July 28, 2011

Robert Kaufman Space Fabrics

I discovered Robert Kaufman fabrics whilst on an on this earth vacation in St Ives in Cornwall. Doing some on this earth surfing! unlike the waitress from the Diner,  who seems as we know from my previous posts to not need any protection from the rigours of space.
I will be coming back to the uniforms of people who will be working in space.





Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Space hostesses...

"2001 a space oddessy" 1968
"2001 a space oddessy" 1968
"The fifth element" designer Jean Paul Gaultier 1997
Both films look forward into the future and start to look at what workers in space, looking after the tourists, might wear. Again we get the impression that skin tight or very tailored is the way to go...

Hmm I wonder which hostess I would like to be looked after?
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