Lugging your old clothes to a Salvation Army or local vintage shop is backwards thinking — it just takes too much time. Instead of helping the needy and assisting thrift store plundering fashionistas, you can now trash your dated clothing in the recycling bin. Which is why we need to start wearing paper! Plus, it just looks cool. After the jump, find pictures of our favorite paper-minded fashion.
1. Map Wear
Elisabeth LeCourt has created the most utilitarian piece of clothing since the subway hoodie. We’re not sure how many times you can wear a map dress before it gets too crinkly, but who ever said clothing had to last more than a day? Wear this to Jeopardy. The answer is Fiji.
[via Elisabeth LeCourt]
2. Origami Fashion
Places not to wear these dresses: Rugby match, hotdog eating contest, Olive Garden. Created by Japanese/Brazilian designer Jum Nakao for a paper fashion exhibition, the clothing supposedly had to be ripped off after the models finished their runway walk! The paper gods weeped that day.
[via Fashion Indie]
3. Tyvek Clothing
As Design Milk notes, you can’t fold these up into paper airplanes and hurl them violently at your dearest friends. These House-Wear products are, in fact, “breathable, durable, light and machine-washable” – mostly because they are created with paper and cotton.
[via Design Milk]
What are your thoughts? Do you think paper should replace denim, wool, et al.?
Flavorpill covers cultural events, art, books, music, and world news. Join now.
Email to a friend
Tweet
Facebook
Digg
StumbleUpon
8 Responses
[...] just don’t go out in the rain [...]
LOL! Apart from the rain, it will bring a new angle to the TEAR MY CLOTHES OFF phrase :)
love it..! I like the dress by Milk, the others seem like I’d have to get flat to wear it..
I had a paper dress in about 1965 that I loved and wore until it shredded. The swinging 60s experimented with all kinds of clothing paradigm shifts.
I’m all for paper clothes!
Paper can be waxed and weaved like any other fibrous (hairy) material so it actually lends itself very well to the clothes making – it’s when you was it that it might just disolve but I certainly think there are ways around that!
I meant – when you WASH it, it might disolve!
You know what paper clothes are really good for?! Catching on fire.
This doesn’t seem like a very bright idea. Not only can it not be washed very well, but it could catch on fire, and be more likely to tear than real clothing (even if it was preserved with wax, paper still isn’t nearly as flexible as cloth). Not only that but it seems so wasteful, unless you were to use completely recycled paper. At least old clothing can be useful to others, or even modified for years to make new articles of clothing.
It could be pretty as a certain art form, but over all, not very practical for day to day living.