How to....Have fun by personalizing your T-shirt

You have a great T-shirt at home, but it’s not that great to wear it again? Don’t let the dust set on it. Change it, make it a totally new T-shirt. I promise people will envy you.

Vicci from First WordBird gives us some great advise about how to personalize your T-shirt.

You will need:

100% cotton colour T-shirt bleach

plastic stencil of your design

rubber gloves

spray bottle

vinegar

bucket

1. Put 50% water & 50% bleach into spray bottle

Wet  the T-shirt trough, wring out the  excess water and find a well ventilated area to work.

2. Place the stencil onto the T-shirt and scrunch fabric around outside of stencil.

3. Spray the bleach mix over the design and all over the T-shirt. The colour will start to change quickly.

When you’re happy with the effect remove the stencil and place it into a bucket with fresh water and agitate. Then fill the bucket again, this time with a half of a cup of vinegar and leave it for about 2 hours.

4. Launder as usual and enjoy your cool new T.

See more cool hand painted T-shirts at First Word Bird

Fiber optic dress changes color on a whim

London-based designer Amy Rainbow Winters showed in a FashionWare area at the Consumer Electronics Show the dress that changes its colors. The item is made of fabric with fiber optics woven in and sensors in the sleeves. Light traveled through the cloth, which glowed blue. With a touch of a sleeve, Winters changed the color. "If you feel like having a purple, the dress will be purple," Winters said on a Ten TV interview. "If you later feel like having red, you have red. You just look at the sleeve and decide what color you want." The fiber-optic dresses cost about $3,000 to make, but the price can rise depending on the design, according to Winters, whose creations are on display online at rainbowwinters.com

Winters designs fabric and clothes, then collaborates with technologists to made the materials needed. She works with many techno-fabrics, including some that react to sound, sun or water. Nearby she had on display a dress with motion sensors in the cloth that changed colors if the wearer jumped. Fabric she creates can be made into just about any garment. Her creations are custom, and have been used in entertainment productions such as music videos or to catch eyes in ads. She is not in the ready-to-wear market.


See the interview here: