On the Runway: Spacewear Meant to Dazzle, Even in Zero Gravity
New York Times--May 16, 2006
....On the grounds that you have the right to look as stylish in heaven as on earth, the Japanese space agency, JAXA, and Rocketplane Ltd., a space tourism company in Oklahoma, are sponsoring a space fashion contest for clothes that look good in zero gravity. The best designs will appear in a fashion show in Tokyo this fall....
...In the meantime, Ms. Matsui, known for her mathematically inspired designs, has fashioned a zero-gravity wedding dress... she had tested the dress, which is really a clever pantsuit, by having a man wear the bottom part of the garment on the flight of a so-called vomit comet, an airplane that creates brief durations of zero gravity by flying on a parabolic trajectory...more...
