• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    11212 days ago

    Fucking magnets. Saved you a click.

    (Magnetic clothing buttons have already been invented. Repeatedly. You can buy 20 for six bucks on Amazon.)

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    11 days ago

    How is using magnets a “new button”?

    Disabled folks who can’t fasten buttons have been using magnet closures for a while. This guy adds the ability to decorate it and that’s a new button? They had changeable button covers for fun in the ‘80s.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea
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      711 days ago

      “There wasn’t some arrogant ambition around disruption [of buttons],” Ive told the outlet. “It was a very gentle, humble exploration.”

    • @[email protected]
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      1412 days ago

      The big quirk of the design is the outfit’s buttons, which are basically just normal buttons except for the fact that they are magnetized so that you can swap out the separate outfit toppings at the drop of a hat.

      • @[email protected]
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        1512 days ago

        Because as we know, shirts and other layers falling off our bodies is a problem we all face. And what we need to solve it is an over-engineered button.

        • @[email protected]
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          612 days ago

          I think they were trying to make changing the kind of clothes you are wearing fast. But thats just another non-issue that is not encountered by the average person.

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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            12 days ago

            It’s like they didn’t understand that snap buttons already snap together and come apart easily. Also if you’re gonna wear a jacket over the vest, you don’t even need them to connect to each other. It actually makes putting the stuff on and off more tedious.

            I’ve recently heard that every artist goes through a “too many buttons and zippers” phase but this is ridiculous.

      • @[email protected]
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        512 days ago

        Interesting idea but I fear magnets might have unintended side effects to phones and wearable electronics like headphones.

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          912 days ago

          MagSafe and magnetic Qi chargers have been around for years. They’re also in many earbud cases and earbuds themselves (besides the transducer).

          The problem isn’t that it’s magnetic, the problem is that it’s a solution to a problem almost nobody has, excepting perhaps people without upper limbs.

          • @[email protected]
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            312 days ago

            I mean I like the idea of magnetic buttons because buttoning up can be a bit of a hassle and this sounds like a decent-enough solution. Don’t care about changing sleeve lengths and the like either.

        • @[email protected]
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          212 days ago

          If I’m buying modular clothing its gonna be covered in zippers like I’m in Kingdom Hearts. The magnets sound like a way to lose clothing to gusts of wind.

  • Echo Dot
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    11 days ago

    You can tell he wasn’t that interested in writing this, but he’s clearly being told he has to, and I have to admit I agree.

    The guys made a top, I don’t care.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea
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      210 days ago

      Exactly. My need for a coat/jacket is already satisfied, and fashion really isn’t something I care about. I also don’t care about this designer.