Flammable trousers: then, and later, and now

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 […]

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 […]

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