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Artist-designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created the “N3″ zipper dress, made of 120 metal zippers.  Just add more zippers for a longer dress, or take them off for a miniskirt!

Of course, you can’t wear it through any metal detectors!

Via The Zipper Dress (A Sebastian Errazuriz Design) | Britannica Blog.

Paper clothes? This paragraph from the Mental Floss blog tells all about the paper-clothes fad in the sixties.

In Swinging London, ready-to-tear paper dresses were all the rage among ladies.

The little dresses, which were shift style dresses in bright patterns marketed as “instant fun from London,” were absolutely prone to ripping, tearing, and all the problems you would expect from paper clothing, but that may have actually added to that “instant fun.” (Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection of paper dresses, here.)

Picture 122.pngThe dresses somehow embodied the Mod spirit: Andy Warhol recognized the pop art potential of the paper fashions, creating a limited run of paper dresses with his famous rendering of a can of Campbell’s Tomato Soup. It wasn’t just the Twiggies, the Nicos, and the Edies of the day who bought into the fad. Many of the dresses were promotional gifts from paper products companies, including from the Scott toilet paper company, which initially offered the dresses as a sort of promotional gag, but soon found itself inundated with requests for the dresses from women everywhere.

LIke most of the “way of the future” ideas in the 1960’s and 1970’s, this didn’t really catch on, but it’s fun to think about!

Via mental_floss Blog » Disposable Suits and Paper Underpants.