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The developing adaptive clothing market is limited with garments that lack in design and functionality as also aesthetic, and online retail is neither user-friendly and nor does it have features that aid accessibility, says a research.

In a severe blow to fast fashion brand Shein and just ahead of its plans to be listed on a US stock exchange within the year, a campaign to “shut down” the brand has been launched to "protect American consumers" and ensure a level-playing field.

Materials science company Pangaia has launched its first denim product — an oversized jacket — made entirely from cotton textile waste.

Waking up to the potential adverse health impacts associated with PFAS exposure, the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) has for the first time included per- and polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) as a class of chemicals in its latest Restricted Substance List (RSL).

Sorting and recycling could be more effective if a tag made of photonic fibres is woven into the fabric. A team of researchers has done just that and is now evaluating ways to move forward with the commercialisation of the technology.

Vapour-printing clothing fabrics could solve one of the most difficult problems in the quest to create wearable, unobtrusive sensitive sensors: the problem of pressure.

In an attempt to inform decisions to unlock necessary investments and actions to scale collection, sorting and recycling innovations in North America, Fashion for Good has launched its Sorting for Circularity USA Project.

A researcher is developing body-tracking wearable technology, or smart clothes to track fever in infants through thermochromic yarn that changes colour based on body temperature.

The Effluent Guidelines Program Plan by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a critical next step to tackle pollutants like PFAS and nutrients at the source, before they can harm our health and the environment. 

New cotton lines created by a multi-parent breeding approach has resulted in opportunities for natural genes to interact and develop the unexpected trait of flame retardancy. This means that when exposed to an open flame, the fabric from the new cotton lines self-extinguish whereas regular cotton fabric burns entirely in seconds.