Spray On Clothing Has Arrived!!

- Getting dressed in the mornings can be such a drag. Having to laboriously pull that t-shirt over your head, put each leg into your jeans. Surely there must be an easier way? Well now there is, as Spanish designer Manel Torres and scientists at Imperial College London have developed spray on clothing using polymers. You spray the liquid onto your body, the solvent keeping it a liquid evaporates and fibres stick to one another to create a non-woven seamless fabric. Incredibly, it can be removed, washed, and re-worn or dissolved, and the material used again. It takes around 15 minutes to spray a t-shirt, but because it’s so cold, spray on trousers might not be such a good idea after all. Torres said:“I really wanted to make a futuristic, seamless, quick and comfortable material. In my quest to produce this kind of fabric, I ended up returning to the principles of the earliest textiles such as felt, which were also produced by taking fibres and finding a way of binding them together without having to weave or stitch them.”