E: Energy Efficient Clothing

Energy Efficient Clothing

April 6, 2022

Dear Garment Industry,

I’m concerned about the amount of time, energy, and money you spend on designing clothes and where your focus is. Looking at your designs, based on what people are wearing, clearly, your emphasis is art over functionality. Now don’t get me wrong, even though I don’t agree with many fashion trends with their flair for color and uniqueness, and ripped jeans, I do like what I see at times. I’m a rather conservative and down-to-earth dresser myself. I believe that the clothing that one wears should serve a purpose beyond just covering up the body, and be useful in everyday life. 

Take for example temperature. How many couples can go out on any particular day and find that each one of the partners has a different reaction to the temperature? Or with pajamas and room temperature? One feels cold, whereas the other feels fine. Or one is sweating and the other feels cold. Your clothing is designed for a unique range of temperatures. In these cases, neither partner can be adequately attired, especially if the weather changes. 

I recommend that you work with scientists and other notable people and design clothing that is weather/temperature resistant. 

Imagine an article of clothing comprised of nanite material that can sense the internal and external temperature and adapt to any changes. Think of how energy efficient that would make the person wearing it. They could focus on their work and let their clothing deal with changes in the environment without having to change clothes all of the time.

You set the temperature you want to feel like. If it’s too cold, the nanites activate the temperature-controlled heat producers, so without any change in the look of the garment, your body warmth can be maintained. If the nanites sense any moisture from sweat or just heat from the sun, they activate the temperature-controlled cooling producers. Clothing like that would be invaluable and worth purchasing. 

Imagine having clothing with color sensors. You can decide which color your garments were at any given time. Have a shirt and pants that don’t match? No problem. Just choose the colors you want and they are automatically programmed into your apparel. You can even design your own patterns.  Then all you need are different shapes and designs of clothes made up of that material. Much more useful. 

Will these articles of clothing cost a lot of money? I’m sure they will initially. But as the technology improves and these clothes become easier to make, the costs will go down. Think of the money that can be saved on these energy-saving clothes in the long run and how these products would improve the environment by having less waste of clothes and materials being discarded. 

I implore you to seriously re-funnel your money into science research. Let the fashion people do their thing and create different designs, but focus on how technology can be used to enhance the clothing selection and adaptability experience.  I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. 

                         Sincerely,

I.M. Waring

                                   Dressup, AK