Fashion

At this point we wanted to explore what Po Campo's apperal would actually look like. We were taking inspiration from modern fashions for a lot of different designers and put our own twist on it.

We refined both our ideas based upon the feed back we got from Emily at Po Campo and our peers and narrowed our ideas down to these two basic concepts. For the raincoat we want to push forward with the dusters concept. The dusters would allow your legs to keep dry as well as your upper body. We haven't narrowed down the placement of all the reflectivity but one function we are keeping are the expandable sleeves. The sleeves would unzip, exposing reflective material as well as lengthening the sleeves so when your in cycling position your wrists are exposed to the weather. Also we like the idea of it being a two piece item. The top layer being a removable hood and shoulder protection. This way the hood can be removed to leave the coat a little more fashionable.

The gloves are also a two piece product. Emily suggested that we think about seasons, what would a glove look like if it were ment for more than one season? We came up with this. The top layer would be more of a arm warmer with finger warmers. The bottom layer would be more of the cycling function, providing padding and reflection. Something more sporty on the bottom and the top layer hiding that with fashion.





We then prototyped our idea and tested it on our friend. From the testing we found out that the top layer of the coat didn't move very well when expanding the arms. It bunched up. The gloves worked well, we just have to figure out how they actually are going to look as far as fabric and color.

Our raincoat concepts were pretty broad at this point. Basically trying to figure out some unique functionality aspect that we thought would be necessary when biking. When we presented to our peers we got positive feed back from the drawstring concept, the dusters idea, as well as the sexy diagonal cuts.




We decide to push forward with our glove idea as well as our raincoat concept. We were trying to figure out what type of functionality it would have with out loosing its fashion sense. We are playing around with the idea of incorporating a emergency contact band for safety reasons because it should be one of the first places to look when someone is injured.