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"French ban on 'forever chemicals' in cosmetics, clothing to enter force"
#France #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

French ban on 'forever chemicals' in cosmetics, clothing to enter force
A French ban on the production and sale of cosmetics and most clothing containing polluting and health-threatening "forever chemicals" goes into force on Thursday.

Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/grok-says-safeguard-lapses-led-images-minors-minimal-clothing-x-2026-01-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p43#a260102p43

Yesterday's archival cream of the crop. I suspect the Clothing Panoptican specialized in turtlenecks.
#histodons #archives

Excuse me #Walmart but I believe you’re missing some options here.
#CyberMonday #MenWearClothesToo

Dang it all. The dryer at our holiday accommodation appears to have, bizarrely, melted the zip (just a small section, but enough) on my Cactus shorts... and now I'm perpetually flying low. These are my 90% of days-type clothing in summer. Sigh. Luckily, I'll be able to take them in for repairs shortly... assuming I can find something to wear while they're at the shop.

The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years,
Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing
https://www.wired.com/story/the-zipper-is-

The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.

how do you even make a Lycra top hat Bruce https://mastodon.social/@chest_bot_shop/115385401693084912

🩸 Blood tests show highest levels of forever chemicals in those living near New Mexico plume
#pfas

Blood tests show highest levels of forever chemicals in those living near New Mexico plume
It's a name many people have trouble pronouncing, but these synthetic chemicals have been used in everything from fast-food packaging to nonstick cookware, clothing, household cleaning products and even firefighting foam.

Stop ghana from becoming Europe's textile waste dumpsite #Ghana

Stop Ghana from Becoming Europe's Textile Waste Dumpsite
Fast Fashion, Slow Poison, we highlight that every week up to 500,000 items of clothing waste from Kantamanto Market end up in open spaces and informal dumpsites. Africa is not Europe's textile dumpsite!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rufustheduck/115820709664397926
If you've got something dark you want to photograph, like a black cat or article of clothing, you can achieve better definition by having some white paper or styrofoam outside the frame,…

I'm wondering if 4°C is warm enough for short. I mean, they ARE long shorts, so I should be ok with equally long socks.
These are the lengths (no pun intended) that I will go to, to not wear full length jeans.
#Clothing #Comfortable

Just finished folding and hanging some laundry. It occured to me to wonder when was the button-buttonhole combo invented, and by whom? Based on the archeological finding of bone needles dated to many 10s of 1000s of years ago, fitted clothing in one form or another has been a thing for a very long time. Maybe even Neanderthals did it. So fasteners of some sort would exist, but what about the button-buttonhole combo as we know it today?

Sean Duffy Wants People to Dress Better, Be Civilized at the Airport - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-duffy-thanksgiving-holiday-travel-dress-clothing-civil-transportation-airlines-2025-11

I'm not at all versed in medieval Jewish clothing culture or the attention paid to such in Weimar Germany film productions. Are the fashions depicted here accurate for a sixteenth century Prague ghetto?
#witches #wizards #workwear
https://archive.org/details/der-golem-1920

I never thought I’d be a person who wore hi-vis clothing but biking home after 5pm has me contemplating it…
#bikeTooter

University of Alberta exhibit highlights clothing altered by people with disabilities:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-17-edmonton-am/clip/16186377-u-a-exhibit-highlights-clothing-altered-people-disabilities

I just bought Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on Good Old Games for less than 3 bucks. I have never played it. It's 33 years old by now...
#scummvm #gog #LucasArts

If you encounter kidnappers, stay safe and take note of these things about them, and then share the information with ICIRR.
Download a PDF to print and carry with you, I have put this at https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ice-watch-card-s-a-l-u-t…

Today at VU Amsterdam for the PhD defense of Shuai Wang. I really liked the traditional and formal procedure in the Netherlands how they conduct a PhD defense and the subsequent investiture of the new PhD.
#PhD #academiclife

Good Morning #Canada
Finally, arriving at our our 10th province, Manitoba, and putting this series to rest means no more nightmares. Friendly Manitoba, it says so right on their license plates, also has hundreds of abandoned towns, but today we'll focus on Scarf. Named for William Scarf, not for winter clothing or the more recent term for eating quickly, the settlement began in the 1880s, started to flourish after train service arrived in 1907, and died slowly after train service stopped, with the last residents leaving in the 1980s. But in 2013, the regional mayor decided to sell parcels of land in the ghost town for $10. I wasn't able to find out if this plan to bring Scarf back from the dead was successful, but perhaps the area is cursed. In 2020, a tornado touched down near Scarf, killing two teenagers when their vehicle was swept off the road.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-rm-looks-to-sell-ghost-town-lots-for-10-1.2086700

One thing about no longer checking Twitter that there are now years worth of odd things I wasn't aware of. "Whatever happened to the music artist M.I.A?" gets answered with "Selling EMF-blocking silver underpants on Infowars."
https://www.st…

This reminds me of how truth is just whatever monster people decide to follow.
#Fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism

🔫 Engineers develop spray to make clothes more fire-resistant
#clothing

Engineers develop spray to make clothes more fire-resistant
Researchers at UNSW have developed a novel fire-resistant spray that could slow the rate at which cotton materials catch fire—and reduce the risk of burning.

Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Why, how do you transport yours?
#caturday

Lily Cheng would like to tell you that it's important to wear reflective vest as a pedestrian, but has nothing to say to drivers about slowing down when conditions are bad.
#visionzero #topoli

Y’know, I’d start watching #Sunrise again if once a week, they dragged out a new item of clothing from #Albo’s wardrobe, and we got to see three minutes, live, of #SussanLey clutching her pearls, bellowing in outrage, and…

German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…

Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report

Videos of sexually suggestive, AI-generated children are racking up millions of likes on TikTok, study finds
AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked up millions of likes on TikTok, even though the platform’s rules prohibit such content, according to new research from an online safety non-profit.

"Washing machine filter captures microfibers as small as 20 micrometers in size"
#Plastic #Plastics
https://

Washing machine filter captures microfibers as small as 20 micrometers in size
A single laundry load containing synthetic clothing can release thousands of plastic microfibers from nylon, acrylic and polyester materials. Lab testing of an SA-made washing machine filter at Flinders University shows it can be a useful new way to help protect waterways from polyester and other synthetic microparticles.

This video essay about the look of Sinners (which was shot on 70mm IMAX and Ultra Panavision) brought up something I hadn't realised until now: the large format gives you a wide field of view with the look of a telephoto lens! What that means is that you get shallow depth of field like in closeup shots with the framing of a wider angle lens.
Personal observation: there's also very little barrel lens distortion that usually comes with wide shots on 35mm.

Today at Pyöräpaja someone brought some green tea candy from China. Delicious. It is imported to the EU by a company in #Prato, Italy. I knew the businesses in Prato Chinatown for the clothing sector, I was not aware of the food importers. Such a blessing!
(The company apparently grew its revenues by 13,000 % in 2024.)

InfiniHuman: Infinite 3D Human Creation with Precise Control
Yuxuan Xue, Xianghui Xie, Margaret Kostyrko, Gerard Pons-Moll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11650 https://

InfiniHuman: Infinite 3D Human Creation with Precise Control
Generating realistic and controllable 3D human avatars is a long-standing challenge, particularly when covering broad attribute ranges such as ethnicity, age, clothing styles, and detailed body shapes. Capturing and annotating large-scale human datasets for training generative models is prohibitively expensive and limited in scale and diversity. The central question we address in this paper is: Can existing foundation models be distilled to generate theoretically unbounded, richly annotated 3D …

Whimpering here. I am going through a large envelope of negatives with a few prints. From what I see they go back to the early 60s. Almost no information about when, where or who. For some of them I can make an educated guess based on clothing styles and cars.
A few rants (and a lot of whimpering)
- NEVER CUT NEGATIVES INTO INDIVIDUAL IMAGES
- don't dump multiple rolls of negatives into one sleeve.
- when there is writing they used pen and that fades over the d…

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
Rebecca Lin, Michal Luk\'a\v{c}, Mackenzie Leake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11941 https://arxiv.o…

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
While bodies change over time and trends vary, most store-bought clothing comes in fixed sizes and styles and fails to adapt to these changes. Alterations can enable small changes to otherwise static garments, but these changes often require sewing and are non-reversible. We propose a modular approach to garment design that considers resizing, restyling, and reuse earlier in the design process. Our contributions include a compact set of modules and connectors that form the building blocks of mo…

Urban Domicile 🏠
城市聚落 🏠
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

⛳ Novel textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties on demand
#fabric

Novel textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties on demand
Imagine a road cyclist or downhill skier whose clothing adapts to their wind speed, allowing them to shave time just by pulling or stretching the fabric.

Moody Urbanity - TWO II 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 II 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🦾 Robots you can wear like clothes: Automatic weaving of 'fabric muscle' brings commercialization closer
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-robots-automatic-fabric-muscle-commercialization.html

Robots you can wear like clothes: Automatic weaving of 'fabric muscle' brings commercialization closer
The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory alloy coil yarn—thinner than a human hair—into lightweight and flexible "fabric muscle" suitable for large-scale production.

Yesterday's archival cream of the crop. I suspect the Clothing Panoptican specialized in turtlenecks.
#histodons #archives

"French Fast Fashion Law Could Reshape European Clothing Market"
#France #FastFashion #Fashion #Textiles

French Fast Fashion Law Could Reshape European Clothing Market | Happy Eco News
The French fast fashion law passed the Senate overwhelmingly, targeting companies like Shein with penalties up to 50 percent of product prices. The legislation aims to combat environmental damage from ultra-cheap clothing imports, though industry lobbying weakened original provisions before the bill advances to final parliamentary approval.

Runners off the line at the 2025 Turkey Trot in front of the Ithaca High School
#photo #photograph #ithaca #ihs

Metropolitana III🔶
城 III🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

⛹🏻‍♀️ Ball mill technique produces nanoscale scaffolds that filter PFAS
#pfas …

Ball mill technique produces nanoscale scaffolds that filter PFAS
PFAS are fluorinated compounds found in many everyday products, such as outdoor clothing and cookware like Teflon pans. This is because PFAS are durable, heat-resistant and dirt-repellent. Their stability is precisely what leads to problems: although potentially harmful to our health, these substances are scarcely broken down at all in the environment and are regarded as "forever chemicals." PFAS are also found in wastewater. Although they can be removed by filtration, this is a laborious proce…

Good Morning #Canada
Prior to #Retirement, my last decade in business was spent in #ReverseLogistics managing major retail and manufacturer clients. Reverse logistics is the process of managing customer returns with the objective of recapturing value or ensure proper disposal. It covers activities like processing, restocking where possible, repairs, recycling, refurbishing, and resale. This company in Mississauga is relatively small in comparison to a Costco or Walmart reverse logistics warehouse but it provides a glimpse at a little known industry that deals with $880B USD in annual returns worldwide. The industry is about to enter its busiest period as consumers will return over 10% of Christmas purchases, close to 30% for clothing. In the 1st 3 months of 2026 some remarketing B2B auction sites (representing Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, etc) will be liquidating 100 tractor trailer loads per day, including stuff you're about to unwrap in a few days.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.orilliamatters.com/ontario-news/inside-the-warehouse-poised-to-process-your-unwanted-gifts-this-holiday-11646891