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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Women’s Work

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How to Make Magical Clothing with Tech

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Idea Lab: Students Talk Gender and Science

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LZR Racer

Winning Skin

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First Friday: Second Skin—The Science of Stretch

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Othmer Library Open House: The Golden Age of Science Advertising

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Carl “Speed” Marvel in PBI vest

Tough Stuff

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Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Robert W. Gore
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Natrually dyed fibers

To Dye For

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Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek
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Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
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A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself at the age of 14—four years before he discovered the first synthetic dyestuff.

William Henry Perkin
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Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene.

Wallace Hume Carothers
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Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

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The French Connection

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Ruining Rags

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Detail of a burlap sack for H. Kohnstamm and Company’s Simplex Soap. When recently laundered clothes started to disintegrate in the early 20th century, angry customers turned to laundries, which in turn looked to soap manufacturers, such as Kohnstamm, for

Going to Pieces: A Detective Story

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Museo Territoriale Bassa Friulana

A Future Woven in Rayon

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A giant leg, 35 feet high, advertised nylons to the Los Angeles area.

Nylon: A Revolution in Textiles

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True Blue: DuPont and the Color Revolution

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