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If you happened to be an 80s child, chances are, all your creative writing teachers demanded fictional essays that predicted life in the year 2000. It could have been laziness on their side; after all, they didn't need to come up with a title on the spot. Or they might very well have wanted us, I mean those proverbial 80s children, to really look forward to the future (read: graduation). Either way, you would have grown up with pretty high expectations of the 21st Century. And by this I refer to visions of spaceships as transport vehicles, teleportation capabilities, weird little capsule food and of course, everyone donning the Jetsons' outfits. Well, guess what? We just might be that much closer to realizing one of those dreams.
And what dream might this be? It's called J-ware and apparently you can wear it seven days a week. Now if I can tone down the infomercial-style enthusiasm in my voice, I will elaborate. It's simply odor-free, clean-enough-to-wear-for-a-week outfits. That's right, the technological breakthrough in question is a style of clothing, eight pieces to be precise. Turn out,it kills bacteria (and so won't have that invasive and musty lived-in smell)and dries pretty quick (which naturally tones down the wet patch in armpit effect).
For those seeking out the nitty-gritty details, J-ware was developed by Yoshiko Taya, a professor of clothing at Japan Women's University. It was made with astronauts in mind. As it is, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata will don the outfits during his trip to the International Space Station and provide his feedback.
Alright, jokes aside, when this clothing line becomes available worldwide, you can see the fringe benefits. Think of the free time you will save up since there will be less frantic visits to the laundry. Plus, you'll also be saving lots of water as your trips to the washing machines becomes less frequent. This is precisely why it should work beautifully in the space station. Unfortunately, the only thing standing in the way of this clothing line's success, at least commercially, would be people's vanity. Well, on the other hand, all the folks on futuristic cartoons wore the same attire, throughout the show, a fact that did not change no matter how many often Judy Jetson vroomed off to the space mall.

