Wearing Recycled Music

I discovered a pretty neat fashion concept directly related to technology on ecouterre.com. Two designers, Alyce Santoro and Julio Cesar have taken recycled cassette tapes and created fedoras. The hats, featured on sonicfabric.com are tightly woven with fifty percent recordable cassette tape and fifty percent colored polyester. If that isn't interesting enough, the tape actually becomes audible when a tape head is ran across the fabric. What an inventive concept- a hat that has the potential to play music! These hats are made to order, come in brown or black and are available in medium and large. The cost: $165. Not too pricey if you think about the work that goes into each hat, although the process could be more simple than one might think. This isn't the only item they've created you can wear using the same cassette-tape concept. Artist Alyce also fashions neckties using the same process.