Last year, educator and costume designer Kelly Cobb asked her students at Drexel University to trace the provenance of their clothes. When the task proved impossible, she realized how far removed we are from what we wear.
It was then that Cobb came up with the idea of creating a suit of clothes made entirely from materials prepared within a 100-mile radius of her home. Working with 20 collaborators over the last several months, she constructed the suit -- right down to the underwear and socks.
Read the full story on Wired News, and check out some photos of the finished product.
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From left to right: 100-mile shirt, 100-mile necktie, 100-mile shoes, 100-mile trousers.
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A toasty pair of 100-mile woolen undershorts.
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One of the suit's wool ankle socks.
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Philadelphia educator and costume designer Kelly Cobb presents the pants.
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Before they were pants: Sunny, Thunder and Magic contributed their fleeces to Cobb's suit.
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Aaron Igler shows off the suit to thunderous applause.
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A hand-felted vest suits Aaron Igler's genial mountain-man aesthetic to a T.
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Cobb's buckskin shoes on the hoof.
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Kelly Cobb adjusts the drape of the 100-mile shirt.
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The modern 100-mile man about town.
