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The appropriateness of a little girl’s dress became the center of a heated debate as a result of a mom’s viral video. The controversial clip sparked a conversation on whether some designs are too revealing for young children.Meghan Mayer, a teacher from Detroit, Michigan, USA, asked her 1.3 million TikTok followers if she was overreacting after finding a collection of summer dresses in the girl’s section of Target that feature cutouts at the hips.The dresses were part of the Girls’ Smocked Bodice Cut Out Chiffon Dress…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Spaces to remake and mend clothes would bring much-needed life back into shopping centers and high streets, a new study says. Efforts to wean people away from fast fashion should go beyond sewing workshops in community halls and art spaces. Chain stores should include stations for mending and modifying clothing, and…

Ultimately, Tesla would like for its Optimus humanoid robot to help build cars. It can’t do that just yet, but Elon Musk has shared a new video of the robot impressively folding clothes. We are increasingly starting to take the Optimus project more seriously. When Optimus, also known as Tesla Bot, was first announced, it seemed to be a half-baked idea from CEO Elon Musk with a dancer disguised as a robot for visual aid. It also didn’t help that the demo at Tesla AI Day in 2022 was less than…

Rent the Runway is betting that clothing from designers Diane von Furstenberg and Jason Wu can get customers to keep their subscriptions. Rival clothing subscription service Stitch Fix is staking its future on private brands.The different directions are part of companies’ bids to stem steep subscriber losses in recent months and declines in their stock-market valuations. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Rent the Runwayis betting that clothing from…

“Bhanu was a true blue designer. What we have now are mere stylists,” said Zeenat Aman, the sassy seductress of the Hindi cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, at the launch of the exhibition, Bharat Through the Lens of Bhanu Athaiya, organised by luxury auction house Prinseps at Aguada in Goa’s refurbished cultural hub inside the Port and Jail complex in Candolim. Zeenat, who broke the mould with her edgy onscreen sartorial choices, recalled several anecdotes from her collaborations with Bhanu, including the most memorable…

There’s something magical about a device with multiple purposes that you don’t see every day, and that’s what’s happening with the Eureka Dual Washing Bot. This do-it-all machine is actually 4 appliances in 1. At first glance, you might think it’s a washing machine, and you’d be right. It is a washing machine. But it can also dry your clothes in the same drum. Making it a washer and dryer combo. Open up the front-loading door and toss your dirty clothes in, and the Eureka Dual Washing bot will get them nice and clean.…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story was produced by Grist and co-published with El País. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was supported by the Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas. Tiffany & Co. Released NFTs (and They’re Ugly)On the morning of June 12, 2022, Ángela Astudillo, then a law student in her mid-20s, grabbed her water bottle and hopped into her red Nissan Juke. The co-founder of Dress Desert, or Desierto…

The ravages of smoking cigarettes on human health have long been established. Now a new study says that contact with cigarette smoke, even if it's on your clothes after coming from a smoky environment, can damage your dog's health as well.The study, which was led by Purdue University veterinarian Deborah Knapp, looked at the health and lifestyle factors of 120 Scottish terriers over the course of three years and found that those exposed to cigarette smoke had a six times higher chance of developing bladder cancer than…

In a shocking incident, Amazon was found to be selling spy cams that were disguised as clothes hook commonly used in bathrooms and changing rooms. The victim, in this case a student, has initiated legal proceedings against retail giant Amazon…

Sometimes, for those conveniently oblivious to the rules surrounding personal belongings of others, there needs to be a lesson given on a bigger scale to make them recognize the matter in question at all. Such was the idea behind this Redditor’s revenge against his younger brother’s habit of pinching things from his room.More info: RedditA man’s younger brother kept poaching his personal belongings, so he struck back by taking all of his clothesImage credits: Angela Roma (not the actual photo)The man insisted his…