Clothing, shoe & cloth technology26 Aug 2019 11:14
Signs have been developing elsewhere in the wider, general clothing and footwear market in recent years that the integration of advanced technology into clothing or footwear (such as personal, portable temperature control devices, medical condition, health monitoring, smartphones and athletic/sport aids) may be becoming an emerging trend, one that may be possibly profitable in the future.
Technological development in clothing and footwear in terms of device integration, may be in it's early beginnings.
The clothing and footwear market has changed significantly in the 20th Century.
In 10-20 years time technological integration into clothing and footwear in the form of 'smart footwear' and 'smart clothing' may be more widespread than it is currently, opening up new markets and potential new routes to profit.
This may help to reinvigorate and revitalise the clothing and footwear market, which shows general signs, in my opinion, of being temporally caught in a state of flux between the cultural, societal, technological, buyer trigger and market changes between the 20th and 21st Century.
There is a 'technology zeitgeist', vacuum and market that clothing and footwear companies may yet to have explored and researched fully the potential of.
I will be maintaining a close look out for companies clothing and footwear companies that show any signs of integrating technology, particularly 'smart technology', into their product lines, as this may possibly help open up new markets, new routes to profit and 'future proof' their businesses.