What will we be wearing in the future?

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What are you wearing today? What processes, chemical and otherwise, have gone into creating the garments in your wardrobe? And how might they be improved, honed, transformed in the future?

Professor of Materials & Society at UCL, Mark Miodownik, Dr Jane Wood, Lecturer at the University of Manchester and expert in textile technology, and materials scientist, writer and presenter Dr Anna Ploszajaki join Marnie Chesterton to take a closer look at possibly the most familiar materials we own, our clothes.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Clare Salisbury and Lyndon Jones Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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1:15.6	I'm going to cut to the chase. Can you all take your clothes off?
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