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a. Crocheted bralette chest before dissolving. b. After dissolving the light blue biofoam, patches become hollow and reveal the color underneath.
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Motivated by the growing use and incorporation of bio-based materials in textiles and wearables, we explore one of these materials' quality, dissolving, as an intentional affordance to design ephemeral wearables for fashion. We developed techniques to make biofoam strings, resembling yarns, and used them to weave, crochet, or knit three wearables:...
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... crocheted a bralette that uses dissolving to reveal a new design after interacting with water. As shown in Figure 3, the light blue biofoam yarn matches the color of other yarns in the bralette, concealing the dissolving features. The bralette's overall design draws from various crocheted granny square designs, traditional motifs that are also popular in contemporary crochet fashion. ...
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... solution to prevent "falling apart" also led us to realize that we could use the biofoam to intentionally cause a design to fall apart. We explored this by having the bottom border fall from its original held position to create pieces that hung far more than before (Fig.3b). To achieve this, a bottom border was crocheted in the light-blue yarn most similar in color to the biofoam strings. ...
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... with it, chain stitches were tied and made with either biofoam or light-blue yarn. Thus, when interacting with water, some of the stitches (specifically the biofoam ones) would dissolve, releasing the orange yarn strings as another change to the design (Fig.3b). ...
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... imagine wearing the Reveal Bralette at a festival where, in the case of the wearer being doused in water, their wear would be transformed with a new design, such as a color pop or a transition to a more lacey pattern (Fig.3b). In our vision, this concept could be expanded to full clothing pieces in which a second skin is revealed after the soluble material interacts with warm water. ...
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