Clothes that can cure

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IMAGINE this:

You walk into a fashionable clothes store. When the shop assistant approaches and asks, \"Can I help you?\", you reply, \"I want a shirt to treat my cold, please.\"


You could buy clothes like prescription drugs in the future.

Sounds crazy? It may soon be reality.

In the near future, consumers are likely to buy clothes like prescription drugs, scientists predict. The trend of adding \"medical properties\" to clothes has already started.

Last week, at a public display in St. Petersburg, Russia, French manufacturers showed clothes made of aromatized fabrics said to have health-improving effects. Aromatherapy, or treatment by fragrant floral or herbal substances, is universally recognized.

South Koreans understand that the bitterest pill is the best for putting you right. So they add special mud instead of perfume to fibres. It is said that special \"soiled underwear\" is capable of improving blood circulation by emitting infrared rays onto the body.

In Germany, scientists have developed fabrics with fibres for intertwining microcapsules filled with medicines. The capsules open when they touch the body, releasing medicine for treating a certain kind of skin disease. Designers say that similar clothes will be able to treat eczema in the future.

An Austrian company has unveiled vitamin-added thermal pants. A vitamin balm permeates the skin when melted by the normal body temperature of the wearer. The clothes line also includes thermal pants for easing rheumatic pains. A pair of pants comes with an extra bottle of vitamins.

Maybe, soon drugstores will start selling clothes.