Behold three eras in the international saga of trouser flammability. THEN: The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for agricultural history was awarded to James Watson of Massey University, New Zealand, for his study, concerning the period between World War I and World War II, called “The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers.” LATER: This month, in 2013, the […]
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More about foam-in-the-pants
Investigator Heidi Toms read about the medical report about the hazard of having one’s pants filled with foam. Toms cautions us that foam in the pants can sometimes, at least in theory, be a good thing, provided there is not a dangerous oversufficiency of foam. She alerts us to the foam-in-pants usage described in US […]
How to: Pants specifications
Here are two different methods for specifying clothing size and shape. First, a Workman-like approach: “Body measurement specifications for fit models as a factor in clothing size variation,” Jane E. Workman, Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, September 1991 vol. 10 no. 1, pp. 31-36. Second, an American presidential approach, as lovingly described in words and […]