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Feedback: Top tips for multifunctional clothing

17 November 2010

Top tips for multifunctional clothing

WHAT novel items of multifunctional clothing could the fertile brains of Feedback readers come up with? As an inducement, we offered examples of the emergency face-mask bra invented by Elena Bodnar (9 October). That won her the 2009 IgNobel prize for public health – representing work that “makes you laugh, then makes you think”.

And the winners are:

David Aldred of Brough, East Yorkshire, UK: for proposing a solution to the problem posed by the 2010 Ig Nobel prize for physics – that although wearing socks over your shoes improves grip on icy paths, people…

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