Explore Interesting Facts About Sportswear
Introduction
Welcome to the new age, crazy range of sportswear! However, today we can hardly speak about athletic wear as a category of clothes that is focused only on its practical application. Today, sportswear to a great extent, is a theatre of creativity and sometimes even bonkers extravagance. In this article, we’re going to explore the funny and weird aspects of new sportswear that will have you giggling, scratching your head, or refusing to wear two pieces leggings in public. Well, tighten your laces and get ready for a jog through the fun house of athletic fashion!
The Evolution of Sportswear
Before getting to the funny pictures and videos, it is pertinent to have a look at the background. Sportswear has evolved a lot from the bland cotton shorts and sweatbands of he past years. Who can forget those windbreakers with colors that were neon in the 1980s? Indeed, they were just the inception of the sportswear revolution. We are living in a world where your Yoga pants could have more intelligence than your Smartphone and your running shoes could possibly have a degree in rocket science.
Trendy and Unique Solutions Used in Contemporary Sportswear
Coffee Ground Fabrics
This is not a joke – your morning cup of coffee is not just for drinking anymore. Today, there are some novelties in sportswear fabric; it is possible to buy fabric that is produced from recycled coffee grounds. It’s wash and wear, non-scented, and brings a whole new meaning to running on coffee…though, don’t attempt to devour your shirt when you doze off mid-workout!
Recycled Plastic Bottles
Because the Earth is dying (and fish cannot discern colors anymore), numerous sportswear brands are now making sportswear from plastic bottles. Therefore, when the next time you are going to the new ecological gym wear, just think, that what you are going to wear is nothing but a number of used soda bottles. Say what you will about a fashion statement that comes with bubbles.
Mushroom Leather
It took time but for the vegans and the fungi lovers, mushroom leather is now a thing in sportswear. It is environmentally friendly, rather long-lasting, and suitable for men who would like to resemble a fun guy (quoting the name of this model) at the gym. But be sure not to soak the shoes because as the joke states, you will have a garden on your feet!
Unusual Design Features
Built-in Cooling Systems
Certain high-tech apparel for sports have micro-vent systems integrated into them. I suppose it is like having your own personal air conditioner strapped to you like a backpack!!! Ideal for those who desire to exercise, naked, in an actual refrigerator; or for those who have always wanted to be a walking, talking popsicle.
Self-Tying Shoelaces
Don’t you recall the movie “Back to the Future” in which the character Marty McFly had shoes that tied themselves, oh they were awesome? Well, the future is here folks! Shoelaces that tie themselves are real. For people who never learned how to tie laces, or for those who, for some reason, want to feel like being a character in sci-fi while doing push-ups.
Color-Changing Fabrics
New developments allow for some sportswear to wash, dry or even change color depending on the body heat or level of workout. It’s like ur Mood ring but not just for ur finger it is for the whole body. It just means that when you come to the gym to ease off the exercise and relax your newly bought shirt will expose you!!!
Tech-Integrated Sportswear
Smart Fabrics
We already have smartphones and smart homes, and now we have what can be referred to as smart clothes. These fabrics can even check your pulse, record how you move, and likely assess how good your choice of workout tunes is. Essentially it was a type of personal trainer incorporated into the fabric of one’s clothing albeit the application couldn’t be relied on to watch over you on bench pressing.
GPS-Enabled Shoes
Out running in the morning and can’t remember why? No problem! Many of the running shoes that are available now are actually equipped with GPS capabilities. They can take you home after the long night, navigate you to the gym, and perhaps order you a pizza after the exercises. Just don’t shed the blame on the shoes, when you end up at the donut shop than at the gym, by sheer ‘force’.
Posture-Correcting Shirts
For those of us who unfortunately slouch more than we stand, there are shirts that are meant to correct this. For instance, will let you know when you are positioning yourself incorrectly when you should be standing. It is like having your mom reminding you to sit properly but the information being fed to you is in a more systematic manner, in this case through technology, and the feeling of being nagged is eliminated.
Bizarre Marketing Campaigns
Modern advertisement in sportswear has reached some heights of the truly bizarre. In the month of March, a certain firm released a commercial where they said that they had developed shoes that enabled one to walk on water, albeit, they were as light as a feather. Spoiler alert: they can’t. Even if you are not Peter, and if you are Jesus himself, still, you are going to sink at some point. Another brand developed a billboard that sweats since people would like to purchase products standing in front of a billboard that sweats.
Sportswear That Defies Gravity
Through ongoing technological innovations, in the course of trying to produce clothes that propel the athlete to the highest level of efficiency, designers are developing some of the wildest clothes seen in recent times. The Olympic outfits now are speed skating suits that have little humps all over them to decrease the amount of drag. It makes the athletes look like very fast, very confused hedgehogs – and that says it all. And of course, there are the full body swimsuits which became so revealing that they were barred from the professional events. Well, it seems that being a cyborg seal is only slightly too close to home for the competition.
The Hike of ‘Ugly’ Sportswear Clothing
Fashion has made a round turn from the classy designs that first defined sportswear to what is today referred to as the ugly trend. We’re discussing kicks that probably have more padding than the Sunday roast and color schemes that wouldn’t look out of place on a traffic cone. Sporty but still girlish; That’s what the combination of the 80s and 90s fashion can be described as.
Sustainability in Sports Wear with a Stylized Spin
The necessity of making athletes’ outfits and sportswear more sustainable has catalyzed rather bizarre inventions. There is a company that produces running shoes from algae. Yes, well you know the green Slime that grows in ponds type of green. Another brand introduced a series of exercise wear that are eco-friendly and can biodegrade. Therefore, should one get lost in the woods, your clothing will ultimately turn into compost. How. .. comforting?
Sportswear for Extreme Conditions
For those who are not content with sitting on the couch all day, there is now sportswear for the harshest climate. If you are looking forward to going for running in Arctic then there is a lot to do and a lot to arrange. When it comes to social interactions there is always a type of suit for it. EU final consumers are asked whether they would fancy a workout on the surface of Mars. Well, we are not really there yet, although I believe that with time all the necessary transformations will take place. However, there is a wetsuit that minimizes your attractiveness to sharks because when you are trying not to be turned into fish food, fashion must be the paramount concern.
The Future of Sportswear
When looking at the future of sportswear, one can hardly begin to guess what eccentric developments will be next. Will we then have shoes that include transportation to the workout location? Perhaps shirts that can transform the noises you make into speeches that can inspire people? Or maybe we will have sportswear that incorporates snack holders for those ‘mid-workout snacks’. The combinations are virtually limitless, and if the recently observed tendencies are to be followed, they are guaranteed to be amusing.
Conclusion
Whether it is coffee that gets printed on fabrics or shoes that adjust themselves to tighten, the new sportswear category is a goldmine of comedy and curiosity. There are some of these inventions truthfully serve to enhance performance among athletes while there are some that one cannot but think and laugh at. But that’s the point – that is no longer a utilitarian uniform of sorts, but a declaration of style, a statement of technology, and at times, a source of humor.
The next time you are shopping for exercise wear, consider how secular Western culture has come up with such creative and, at times, ridiculous outfits. Who knows? It could turn into a shirt that is more intelligent than you are or shoes that can execute a marathon much before you can. Here you will find the condensed history of sportswear today funny, serious, and scientifically perfect, at the same time, far from being a snooze-fest.
