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Japanese Astronaut Gets Designer "Space Suit"

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-good-anywhere dept.

Naoko Yamazaki knows you have to look good at work even if your work is in outer space. Japanese fashion designer Tae Ashida has created a designer suit for the female astronaut to wear during her stay on the International Space Station. "As a female designer, I chose a design and colour with a sense of grace ... so that she can feel at ease as she carries out a tough mission in a male-dominated, bleak atmosphere. It's like a dream come true to see my clothes worn in space," said Ashida. "I'm looking forward to seeing her wear my design."

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  1. Misleading title by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Space suit refers to the equipment needed to operate in vacuum.

    This is just a set of "work clothes" for one particular astronaut.

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    1. Re:Misleading title by sznupi · · Score: 4, Interesting

      And BTW some people are working on space suit (proper) technology which does end up looking rather fashionable; relying on the obserbation that human skin is already a pretty good "space suit", except for providing mechanical pressure:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit
      http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/index.html

      PS. Definatelly provides an argument to my views that, while there really isn't something like too little breasts, there is something like "too big" ones - seems they have some some chance of being containing to Earth and dying out once we set for the stairs ;p

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  2. Re:Skills by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Might be a good designer, but definitely isn't a good artist. Either that or she thought the astronaut's legs were the same length as the rest of her body.

    I have yet to see any fashion design sketches that were anatomically correct in their proportions. I gather that such sketches are meant to be impressionistic rather than realistic.

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  3. slow news day? by ckaminski · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My god, the summary leads you to believe they actually made a designer "space-suit", you know, for EVAs. At least that's what it led *me* to believe.

    This is GAP for the Japanese Space Agency. Boo!

    Man, legs like those could wrap around you twice!

    Must be a slow news day.

  4. Re:Skills by Migraineman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Definitely Pencilshopped. I'm certain I've seen this on PencilshopDisasters.com.

  5. A great leap forward for gender relations. by Malibee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure designer clothes will inspire the males in the male-dominated atmosphere to take great pains to put the female at ease. Because really what keeps us male astronauts from treating you female astronauts with the dignity and respect that you _deserve_ is simply that you dress like hobos.

    PS: not actually an astronaut.