A wardrobe staple, the white shirt is something that everyone should own, but it can be a bit of a problem garment - not because it has the potential to make you look like part of the waitstaff if you're not careful - but because it absorbs and seemingly attracts stains like nothing else.
Well, those days may well be gone, thanks to a new invention from Elizabeth & Clarke that promises to revolutionise fashion for even the most sloppy coffee drinkers and sandwich eaters among us: the unstainable white shirt.
Using a fancy futuristic nanotech coating that rejects liquids and dirt by "disrupting the hydrogen bond that binds together water molecules", this shirt will not give in to the everyday demands that you put on it. According to Fast Company, it's not going to feel like weird plastic or strange material either, given the fact that it's a coating applied to the garment: "the magic material uses liquid-repelling fibers that are 100,000 times smaller than a grain of sand, applied to fabric through a bathing and curing process. These fibers sit on top of otherwise normal silk and cotton textiles".
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Apparently it will be able to last for several years (up to 10) and won't make you sweat bullets either, which is why the Kickstarter page hoping to bring this idea to shops around the world has blasted past its goal and, at the time of writing, has already gotten $86,000 worth of backing.
While this is clearly a game changer, can you see yourself using one, or will you stick to the old fashioned method of wearing a bib when you eat or drink anything?
Via Uproxx, Fast Company
