The Etruscans also had a close affinity of dress with the Minoans, with sewn and fitted garments, bright colouring, rich decoration, and an abundance of beautiful jewelry, especially in gold.
"Much better than the strange-looking garments in desperate colours at £1,000 each in the Kensington shops.
The final section of this chapter looks ahead to emerging technologies in which decoration becomes integrated within the construction of the whole garment using dynamic colour effects and moving images.
One image, very clearly referencing the horrific videos released recently by Isis in which American and British captives are beheaded, shows a muscled man in a black off-the-shoulder tunic standing in a desert with his hand on the neck of a kneeling man wrapped in an orange garment, the same colour as the jumpsuits worn by Isis victims.
From store displays, to the textures and folds of garments, to the colours and smells (both new and old) of items beckoning with possibility… it never gets old.
Such associations between colour and garments crosses cultural boundaries too, with many brides around the world insisting on a white wedding even if their own culture demands a very different form of traditional dress and colour codes.
But companies such as SOFTswitch and Eleksen have developed electro-conductive fabrics that behave in similar ways to conventional textiles.Could wearing synthetic fabrics, made from polluting and non-renewable fossil fuels, become as uncool as slipping on a fur coat Could electronic garments one day change colour or pattern?
Pioneered in the early 90s by Patrick McNamee, now head of research and development at laundry products company Spotless Punch, the sheets are manufactured to bear positively charged (cationic) dye scavenging compounds that attract negatively charged (anionic) dyes that come out in the wash; these are generally "direct" dyes that are used to colour cotton garments.
Don't use coloured chalk to mark your garment, the dye used to colour the chalk will also dye the garment.
One was parti-colouring, in which all garments, including hose, could be of one colour down one side and a different hue on the other, the dividing line thus delineating the form of the figure.
