All Entries in the "Fashion" Category

Vibrating Posture Training Shirt Tickles You Into Improving Your Stance

Sure, you were a shrimp in middle school. Doesn’t mean you need to go through life being a slouch, though. Improve your carriage with the Vibrating Posture Training Shirt, an annoying undershirt that gives you incessant reminders when it detects you falling into a bad stance.
Designed by the team physician for the Boston Celtics, the shirt is designed to vibrate non-stop until you straighten up your body. Your belly falling out while standing in line? Bzzzt. Your shoulder hunches while you’re sending a text message? Bzzzt. Your back swayed while you’re walking? Bzzzt…bzzzt…bzzzt!
The Vibrating Posture Training Shirt sports built-in filaments that conform to your body when you’re relaxed. When your carriage drops for the worse, it creates increased tension in the microfilaments, which the built-in electronic sensor automatically detects. Once that happens, it triggers an endless tickling on the area [...]

Ducti Wallet Makes A Billfold Out Of The Humble Duct Tape


Your designer leather wallet might be awesome…back when it was new. But you’ve had it for a good seven years now and, fact is, it’s in deplorable condition. Sure, you’ve MacGyvered every break and tear with duct tape, but that doesn’t make it suck less. Give up the old duct-taped billfold and carry a duct tape wallet instead. Yes, there’s one of those and they call it the Ducti.
Neither hip nor pretentious, just like duct tape, the pocket accessory doesn’t bear any illusion about what it is. It’s neither a fashionable accoutrement nor a clever article for the geek crowd. Instead, the unassuming little bastard just carries your cash and cards like any well-meaning wallet should.
There are two models of the Ducti Wallet, the Classic and the Triplet. Just like the names imply, the former has a traditional bi-fold design for hanging on to [...]

How To Fill Your Wardrobe With Red Carpet Oscar Dresses


Though you’ll never be a celebrity, there’s nothing stopping you from trying to look like one. You’ve already copied Sandra Bullock’s hair, eyebrows and lipstick, but wisely kept your own cleavage (good thinking btw). So, why not don her showstopping dress from the Oscars too?
But…but…you can’t afford that Marchesa, I know. That’s why I’m sending you over to Chinese warehouse wholesaler Light In The Box, who already have a page up selling replicas of dresses worn by the stars during the Academy Awards.
You thought they only cloned iPhones, PSPs and Buell shirts in Shenzhen? Please. They clone everything in China. Heck, they’d probably clone Sandra Bullock herself if they had a factory equipped to do it. And I’d buy one too if they agree to make sure Jesse James doesn’t know about it. Man Jesse James definitely is one cool dude. [...]

Wrap Your Laptop In A Chic South African Cement Bag


Why buy a run-of-the-mill laptop bag when you can buy one that prepares you for a potential career? That’s exactly what you get with the PPC Cement Laptop Bag, a full-featured messenger bag made from unused cement sacks.
What kind of career, you ask? One in mixing cement, of course, as the bag features complete instructions printed all over it. Do you know, for instance, that to mix a low strength concentrate of the calcined limestone and clay, you need one wheelbarrow of cement, four of sand and stone, and 70 liters of water? If you buy this bag, you will, as the full chart detailing every combination appears just right under the flap.
Each PPC Cement Laptop Bag comes with two main compartments separated by a padded divider and two large pockets. Creator Wren Design says the main area can hold up to 15.5-inch notebooks, with [...]

GasCase Diesel And Fuel Bring Gas Station Chic To The Jetset Crowd


Here’s a guaranteed way to get you flagged by airport security: bring along luggage disguised as jerrycans. Infuriating airport personnel is exactly what you’ll do with the GasCase Diesel and GasCase Fuel, two trolley cases that epitomize “gas station chic.”
Okay, I just made up that last phrase. Paired with a service shirt complete with a name patch, though, that’s about the only way I can describe your blue collar fashion aesthetic.
Both bags are made from pickled sheet steel that’s 0.9mm thick, with heavy-duty trolley wheels and an aluminum telescopic handle attached to them. Each case sports 47 x 35 x 16 cm dimensions, painted to a shine in one of seven colors and secured with a butterfly lock. The GasCase Diesel opens to the side with the bag splitting right in the middle like regular travel luggage, while the Fuel opens from the top like a [...]

G-Shock Hyper Color Man Box Watch Is A Colorful Girl Repellent

There’s no Guinness Record for the ugliest watch of the galaxy.  If there was, though, I wouldn’t be surprised to find the G-Shock Hyper Color Man Box ranking high on the aspirants’ list.
Clad in a cornucopia of intentionally uncoordinated bright colors, it looks like an 80s fashion accessory dreamed up by Cyndi Lauper, while she was stoned on crack cocaine, singing “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”  Seriously, though, imagine how good this will look with a mismatched pair of colorful Chuck Taylors?  Mmm…just a little?  Combined with the full-plastic construction and a barely-readable mess of a dial, it’s definitely not the kind of watch you want to be caught wearing on a first date.  Unless you’re dating Cyndi Lauper.  And it’s 1984.
Features are standard G-Shock, such as shock resistance, water-resistance up to 65 feet and other rugged capabilities.  From what I can gather, it’s women-repellent too, making it an excellent [...]

Lacoste Alligator Lace Gives New Meaning To Logo Shirts

Alligators are the only animals I love more than my retarded dog.  In fact, if one ever wandered into the house, I’ll be tempted to feed the mutt to the reptile just to make it stay.  So imagine my joy when I saw the new Lacoste and Campagna Brothers collaboration, the Alligator Lace, which creates an entire shirt out of nothing but Lacoste’s embroidered alligator logo.  For real.
You know that small, iconic Lacoste emblem that goes into the overpriced French shirts in your preppy friend’s wardrobe?  Yep, that’s the one.  Well, Fernando and Humberto Campana collated thousands of that and handed them off to a women’s collective, who then sew them together into a fishnet-style shirt.  Well, it’s not exactly a fishnet, but you’ll be welcoming the cool breeze with all those uncovered areas.

The Alligator Lace is hand-sewn by the Coopa Roca Women’s Cooperative in Rocinha, Brazil, an organization that [...]

JakPak Jacket Is A Sleeping Bag, Emergency Shelter And A Tent

When you need to camp for the night while trekking in the woods, having both a tent and a sleeping bag does sound awesome.  Carrying them around while you’re climbing rocks or slaving over tough trails, however, doesn’t.  With the JakPak, a jacket that can transform into either a sleeping bag or a covered shelter, there’s no need to compromise either way.
A versatile garment for active, outdoor lifestyles, it can turn from an all-weather jacket into a personal sleeping system by simply unzipping and pulling out a few components.  Sure that bivy bag looks hell for someone very claustrophobic, but with waterproof and mosquito-proof qualities, it’s a heck of a lot more comfortable than parking your ass on cold earth.
In jacket mode, the JakPak comes with three usable pockets (with matching storm flaps), an integrated hood with visor and a three-season design (spring, summer and fall).  It’s made from polyester [...]

WTFJeans Come With Spacious, Micro-Fiber Pockets For Your Gadgets

Let’s face it.  Your jeans weren’t built for housing gadgets.  Slipping them into those tight pockets is the easiest path to cracked screens, ugly scratches and all sorts of damage.  WTFJeans offer up a solution: denim pants made specifically for those with a throng of handheld gadgets to lug around.
It’s not exactly a stroke of genius, but still cool none the less.  I am guessing these guys were having gadget lugging issues and were sick and tired of it. So, they made a pair of jeans with pockets designed specifically for housing handheld electronics.  Simple and practical, that’s how we like it. Not only are the pockets spacious (as you can see in the picture), the interior is also lined with micro-fiber to keep scratches away.  They throw in special secret pockets for thumbdrives too, though I really don’t know why.

Each pair of WTFJeans feature a waist that’s cut low [...]

HellBilly Delux: Cowboys Can Wear Fancy Hats Too

Who says only pirates get to decorate their garb in skulls and bones?  Even bull-herding cowboys can look fashionably edgy with a customized hat from Hellbilly Delux wrapped around their noggin’.  Yee-haw.
If you love your Stetson straw cowboy hats but can’t stand looking like you just got off the ranch, the outift’s personalized designs should guarantee nobody makes that mistake.  Building off pre-bought cowboy lids as a base, proprietor Hillbilly Joe turns the classic-looking headwear into intricately morbid masterpieces that look just at home in a death metal moshpit, as it does in a wasteland version of the Wild West.

All Hellbilly Delux cowboy hats can be personalized down to the last detail.  We’re not sure if Joe  will be up for throwing unicorns and rainbows, instead of skulls and tattoo-inspired themes, but I don’t see why not.  Once you’ve agreed on a design, he’ll get your head’s exact measurements, while [...]

Drink Like A Warrior With These Warhammer Beer Steins

Whether you love the PvP action of WAR or absolutely hate the grind the game puts you through, you’re bound to have an affinity for ice cold beer.  Yep, that delicious-tasting lager is the one element of civilization that, pretty much, unites us all.  And these officially-licensed Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Beer Steins is the most fantastical way to drink it.
Bud from a plastic cup might taste the same as Bud drank from a fancy beer vessel, but the feeling they inspire should be world’s apart.   Standing over 10 inches tall and weighing 3 lbs, it makes “beer guzzling while online gaming” look a lot more dignified than a disposable cup ever will.
The Warhammer Beer Steins Epic Collection come in two 32oz designs, one based on Order of the Griffon and another on The Raven Host.  Both are made from fine-grain stoneware with a pewter sculpted lid, a sculpted [...]

In Case You Run Into Aliens, Let The Arecibo Scarf Break The Ice

Running into Aliens could be cool experience or scary too.  You never know what they’re gonna do once you actually stand across from one, so your best chance at fostering good will is to communicate first.  That’s why the Arecibo Scarf will make an excellent icebreaker, allowing you to make first contact with a benign message intended for extra-terrestrial visitors.  Of course, it’s best to cross your fingers and hope they understand what the drawings say, lest end up probed in that part of your body where the sun doesn’t shine.  Yikes.
The Arecibo is one of SETI’s most famous messages.  According to Evil Mad Scientist, it loosely translates to “Hi! We’re intelligent! We’re made of meat! Here’s where we live!”  Embroiders supposedly love similar pixel-based patterns because it lends itself well to stitching on various items.  We don’t know if aliens love them too, because even as an Earthling, I [...]

Moshi Monsters MoPods: Call-Alerting Phone Charms With Cuddly Critters

Addicted to Moshi Monsters yet?  Fuel your monster-petting habit some more with Moshi Monster MoPods, which let you adopt an orphaned pet for use as your call-alerting mobile phone charm.
To the uninitiated, Moshi Monsters is a  popular online game that mixes elements from Neopets, Tamogotchi and social networking with cuddly monsters.  While designed for kids, we’ve seen adults hooked to this thing worse than heroin (okay, maybe not as badly).  MoPods, on the other hand, are a painfully cute, yet surprisingly practical, Japanese invention that puts caged pets inside a dome designed to hang on your mobile phone.
The Moshi Monsters MoPods combine the two together, sneaking a tiny monster from the game inside the plastic cage, in place of the kitten or pup you’d normally find.  Like other MoPods, the 6 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm charm does more than hang decoratively from your handset, alerting you to incoming calls [...]

Cloak Bag Lets You Use Your Camera Without Showing It Off

Billed as a “shoot-through camera bag,” the Cloak Bag’s main function sounds unnecessarily silly – it lets you use your pricey camera without needing to pull the device out of the bag.  For those frequently on the road, however, it may prove more essential than you ever expected.
Created by a traveler annoyed by the threat of his DSLR always being stolen while he roamed the streets abroad, the bag is designed to let you shoot freely without attracting unwanted attention.  For all the would-be thieves know, after all, you could just be some idiot who likes inspecting his bag in public over and over.

How are you supposed to shoot with the camera still in the bag?  The bottom of the Cloak Bag  can actually unzip and roll up, allowing you to simply raise the bag and take a photo at a moment’s notice.  You can access the camera’s controls either [...]

Clinch Wallet Lets You Carry 30 Cards, Guarantees They Won’t Slip

How many cards can you fit in your pocket-sized wallet?  Whatever number you spouted, it still sucks, because the Clinch Wallet probably blows it in the water.  Capable of holding up to 30 credit cards, it’s the most convenient accessory to carry during one of your the-world-be-damned shopping sprees.
Sure, there are probably a couple other wallets that can hold the same number of plastics.  However, I’ve never seen one that remains as thin as this, even with all the compartments filled.   Thirty cards sound like they make a ridiculously thick pile, but it manages to keep the puffiness at bay by maximizing the use of space.

Created by Louis Kiss, the main selling point isn’t even the number of ID, ATM and credit cards you can finally carry around.  Instead, it’s the novel pocket design, which prevents all the cards from slipping.  Unlike traditional wallets where the contents are inserted from [...]

Beauty And The Geek Pants Is The Ultimate Mobile Accessory And Fashion Disaster In One

Why wear a QWERTY keyboard right on your pants?   Because a keyboard looks more awesome than factory-applied rips, tears and stains.  At least, that’s what I’m hoping for with the Beauty and the Geek, a casual-looking pair of jeans with a bunch of electronic peripherals integrated into it.
Designed by Erik De Nijs, the keyboard is positioned right at the crotch and front leg areas, which should feel like typing with a real keyboard on your lap.  I’d caution you against using the spacebar too much, though, if you’re guy – it might hurt.
We’re not sure why it’s named the way it is.  My best guess is, Erik thinks his trousers are supposed to be the Beauty, with whosoever wearing them being the Geek.  Thing is, geeks are largely practical fellows and this looks more like pointless Lady Gaga territory to me.

The Beauty and the Geek doesn’t stop at the keyboard, [...]