Techno Textiles 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design, Sarah E. Braddock Clarke and Marie O'Mahony

The dress designer of today who wants to last until tomorrow needs to be aware of all the untapped beauty lying yet unexplored in plastics and in laminated and bonded fibres . . . Technically, the dress designers of the future will probably need a basic knowledge of science and ergonomics and will almost certainly mould their garments, both in natural and man-made fibres, rather than cut and sew them. (Ironside 1967, cited in Handley 1999: 99)