Now, clothes are being designed for fun to wear, which moves, changes shape, even color and are at affordable rates.
Such clothes were used mainly for sports, lifestyles and military applications but now a commercial use would be affordable and fun to wear.
Joanna Berzowska, a leading designer with high-tech fabrics- intelligent textiles, builds a circuit into a dress in her lab at Concordia University.
A team of students and graduates from a variety of disciplines are working on wearable technologies called kinetic electronic garments, intelligent textiles and wearable computers.
Joanna creates playful clothes that are really magical, like dresses that live and breathe on the body such as dresses featuring fish-like gills that open and close.
She is working on garments that can be mass-produced that use technology cheap enough to be mass-marketed.
The XS (Extra Soft) Labs research laboratory/studio she founded is working on designer clothes partly interactive with components that can change the color of a dress or illuminate it in different ways.
According to her the new technologies can exploit existing techniques, traditional textile methods such as embroidery, beading and printing.
XS Labs uses electronic circuits, microchips, transistors, capacitators and light emitting animated dresses that move or change shape.
The clothes often look normal, with the circuitry either hidden underneath or incorporated in the design, but are able to perform such tasks as switch colors.
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