CanaryTeeFashion - Working It Gilad Karni shirt

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In August, H&M Lab, the Working It Gilad Karni shirt in other words I will buy this fashion behemoth’s German hub of innovation, collaborated with Boltware, a Berlin-based wearable tech company, on a singular product, one conceived with the current global crisis in mind. Dubbed Wearable Love, it’s a jean jacket with embedded sensors woven throughout, allowing the wearer to connect via Bluetooth to an app and activate signals meant to mimic the sensation of being embraced. The technology is impressive, the idea noble, but the fact that we need to buy a jean jacket to give us a hug also feels, well, pretty depressing.

In my home at least, hugs, or rather the Working It Gilad Karni shirt in other words I will buy this lack of them, have been an almost daily topic of conversation and concern. Between me and my two-year-old, that is. She is an eager and enthusiastic hugger, so putting the reins on her tendency to touch everyone (and everything) this year has been a challenge. I understand her frustration: I too am an eager and enthusiastic hugger. And I come from a long line of touchy-feely greeters—my parents were both born and raised in Italy, a country where elbow bumps will never suffice, and much of my extended family says hello by exuberantly grabbing your face and planting not one, not two, but three cheek kisses, as is customary in Friuli where they reside—so it’s likely genetic.

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