Do you spend sleepless nights horrified by the threat textile waste presents to sustainability? Do you pine for a NetZero one-world government that can impose sumptuary laws capping the size of obedient citizens’ wardrobes, or outlaw discarding out-of-fashion clothes that are still wearable?
Then MIT is the place for you! Especially if you yearn to be a fashion designer and have no fashion sense but have plenty of math and science skills.
Watch as two trends collide that are changing the nature of contributions MIT is making to Build a Better World™: Feminization and Climate Derangement Syndrome (CDS).
PhD student Rebecca Lin brings these together, marrying the power of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) with the wokeness of MIT’s Media Lab. Together, they bring us Refashion: Reconfigurable garments via modular design.
Surely, consumers will to rush to buy eco-friendly clothing that can be reassembled into new items.
Isn’t every woman eager to “create a skirt that can then be reconfigured into a dress for a formal dinner?” Wouldn’t you just die to have the power to “assemble pieces such as an asymmetric top that could be extended into a jumpsuit, or remade into a formal dress, often within 30 minutes.”
Move over Madame Curie!
Make sure you don’t look behind the curtain to see the gender imbalance in textile waste. That could create a hostile environment for female CDS zealots. Especially don’t look in the Beaver’s closet, where decades-old clothes get worn until his embarrassed wife makes him donate them to Goodwill on his way to Costco to update his sartorial splendor.
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