Retroreflective Scarves by Diana Eng

Fashion designer Diana Eng has created a beautiful retroflective scarf. She says:

I love the lightweight scarves everyone is wearing indoors, outdoors, and in many different configurations. So I decided to create my own with subtle stripes of tiny retroreflective lenses on the fabric. What normally appear as grey stripes, illuminates with reflected light when exposed to a direct light source. It makes people do a double take to check out what you are wearing.

See a video of the scarf's reflective properties.

Available here

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• [Andy Reilly]

  This needs to be required for the Seattle hipster-ninjas who think it’s better to walk around the dark, rainy, sidewalk-less, rush hour streets of Seattle. You’re fighting rain, sunset at 3:30pm, and oncoming headlights but people still act surprised when you can’t see them until the last second.

• [fss]

  Diana Eng and I are getting old but we still haven’t walked in the glow of each other’s majestic presence.

• [Jardine]

  My Dad wore that before it was cool. I wonder if he knows he’s a hipster.

  http://www.hotte.ca/107920-large/orange-reflective-t-shirt-and-silver-stripes-shoulders.jpg

• [cinerik]

  Go a little heavier on the reflective qualities and these might be a hit with celebs trying to avoid paps with flashes

• [Spocko]

  Que the Product placement experts
  “Hi So I’d like to embed the name of our company into these. How much?”
  Diane: “Well it depends on what the product name is and how much you want to make.”
  “I want to embed the name of our new movie Transformers 4 Ghost Protocol” in to shirts, jackets and scarfs and give them to our new stars as well as sell them to unaware buyers of black hipster wear.”
  Diane: $2.4 million to license 5.5 for me to do the work.
  Product placement experts:
   Will you take a check?

• [David Hart]

  My talented friend Amy has been doing a similar thing here in Australia for a couple of years now. She caters mostly to urban bike riders who don’t want to wear ugly gear. Her company is called Wovenspoke. Check it out on Facebook.