LumiTops: glowing disco-wear a candle to guido moths
In the strange cultural eddy that is nightclub fashion, these "LumiTop" shirts, woven with fiber optic thread that causes the fabric to hug breasts like a celestial WonderBra, will probably make a big splash. Don't think of them as fashion, but instead useful tools to illuminate your drink, making it more difficult for slimebags to slip Rohypnol into your drink.
Plus nothing makes a woman look better than a soft blue gleam lighting her face from below. That's why witches' cauldrons always glow.
LumiTops start around €100 and go up to €170 depending on how intricate their design may be. There's even a tank top for the guys.
Product Page [Lumigram.com via Inventor Spot via Gizmodo]
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They're beautiful, and I would love to wear one of these tops, but fibre-optics don't offer much, er, support, for those of us that have big boobs.
It's a conspiracy against the buxom, I tell you: out-and-out discrimination!!!
*sigh*
well written title for this post. made me laugh.
@1 - I'm deeply sorry that you've been discriminated against. You've inspired me to start my own affirmative action policy; never again shall large-breasted women be denied any opportunity I might be able to offer them.
getting better. But they should have variable colour illuminaires with the driver controlled by wearer biosensors reflecting arousal and physiological emotional indicators. I suppose different thread lengths would allow programmed chase bands. Ultimately a squid-talking swimsuit. Or it could be used to pick up New Jersey car detailers.
Great idea. Otherwise I'd probably never look at women's breasts, or something. So, glad that problem's been solved.
Y'know when you see an 80's movie that shows a nightclub or party in "teh future!" and the women are dressed in these horrifying and garish colors with lights and feathers and glow-sticks, dancing to music that sounds like Kraftwerk remixed with Metal Machine Music?
Yeah, that's where I see these outfits looking right at home.
Who you callin' goombah?
I just had a night out where the real "hip" kids (read: 20 something clubbers) hang out, and I report with mixed emotions that these tops are no where near revealing enough to be successful.
Neon pasties are where it's at nowadays.
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Y'know when you see an 80's movie that shows a nightclub or party in "teh future!" ? "
I was just going to say that I saw people wearing stuff like this in 1978 in studio 54. There was even a guy named Andy Blinx that made leather jackets with chaser LEDs on them for about as much as a nice used car. Pat Field sold some nice jackets with micro retro-reflectors in them so. I always thought tht it was too bad that optical clothing never went anywhere.
Those things in the photos are just ugly and gimmicky though
why did they model them with mannequins?
I like the one that shoots turquoise sparklies down its wearer's bare belly. Sparklies are cool.
# 10 - Because if they model them on women who really have bellies like that, it'll put girls like me off, because we'll get depressed about our own not-so-tanned-or-flat bellies.
...awww, I made myself sad.
The site does have photos of people wearing the LumiTops. Difficult to tell from the photos if they'd be appalling or cool. Or both.
I think this is probably the manufacturer of the fabric, or at least something exactly like it: http://www.luminex.it I saw it at a trade show a few years ago, and you really do have to be in a dark room to get the full "Logan's Run" effect. Under normal lights it looks like a silver lamé that's reflecting colours from the room. Kinda pretty, actually.
Sheesh, I just watched the video.
I'm assuming they hired people/got employees to wear the stuff and "dance" around, because it looks nothing like any club/disco/rave I've ever been to. Also, they don't really seem to be having a lot of fun...
Still, the clothes look good, in a way.
I hope the concept dies: Techno-trendy clothing sold at a premium in boutiques and modeled on bone-thin women will be sold at WalMart and worn by, er, less-than-bone-thin women filling their super-slurps in convenience stores within two years. The future isn't looking very pretty right now.