As the global recession continues to wreak havoc with national economies, an enterprising Romanian woman has offered up a unique solution for her country’s economic woes.
Ionia Cioanca (71) has been creating hand-made clothes and accessories from human hair since the age of 16. Now well accomplished in the creation of human hair products, Cioanca hopes that her techniques can help revitalize the local economy.
Using techniques for processing wool, Cioanca carefully harvests her own hair to make blouses, coats, hats, gloves and even handbags.
The grandmother turned would-be entrepreneur believes that her profession is a sacred one citing the example of Mary Magdalene wiping the feet of Jesus with her hair.
Cioanca has pressed the mayor of her town to help her register her accomplishments with the Guinness World Book of Records. Not only does she hope that the publicity will prove a boon to the local economy, but also encourage a cottage industry based on human hair products.
Via Bistriteanul.
As the Romanian economy has worsened, more of its citizens have seemingly turned to the selling of goods that were once considered the realm of taboo…
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Perhaps if they make it out of the hair of young ladies it will prove a success...
I agree to that...
and also, moe marketing would be a success (as always)
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we're getting more Romanian news today, huh?
I was about to say.
My friend is Romanian, and I sent him the incest and virgin ebay articles. More weird Romanian news!
What did you expect from vampires...
Numa Numa?
Especially considering the awesomely straight black hair so many Japanese seem to bemoan being blessed with.
yes, straight black hair for smoother and silkier results.
timotei...timotei...timoteeeii~~
"Perhaps if they make it out of the hair of *Lolis* it will prove a success..."
Fixed.
Perhaps if they make it out of the PUBIC hair of young ladies it will prove a success…
hmmm dead fish scented face masks
I think I saw the same thing on Ripley's once
Same here.
Though I think the one on Ripley's was a barber who made bras out of human hair.... =P
I remember that, but that was so long ago...
I wonder how comfortable it is.
As comfortable as wearing hair on your head.
Or as comfortable as going to the barber and let all the hair fall down your t-shirt.
apparently, this is not the first time such a thing has been done. In fact, somewhere in the world, it's considered "high fashion" too!
http://inventorspot.com/articles/clothes_and_jewelry_made_human_h_10641
There was also the case of the German submariners, assuming this was not war propaganda.
ah yes. google result:
http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?p=35532
and link to original source
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3680205,00.html
It seems even the Germans back in the day were the pioneers of such avant-garde fashion.
that's odd. i guess my post got bahleeted since i linked to two places.
anywho, here's the source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3680205,00.html
...Thus proving the Germans were once again at one point in time the pinnacle of "avant-garde" fashion.
It's been done here in the UK, but making jumpers out of the hair of your late dogs.
I'm sure all that human hair would fetch more money as hair extensions, anyway.
No kidding. I saw ~1 metre long extensions for like 300 bucks the other day...
I hope all that hair came from her head...
...I *so* did not need that image in my head.
Can't unsee! @.@
Guess it's too late to scroll down I_I
Actually...we're doing pretty well here in Romania. Hell...gas prices have gone down, and nothing really had a price increase, except maybe like 2%. And we don't have that many jobless people, at least not like USA.
what's with the sudden flood of Romania-related articles?
Artefact probably found out that weird shit happens here all the time.
yeah, but none of this weird shit is moe
And weird shit that IS moe makes the shit better?
I asked Jin the same thing. It's just coincidence.
Are you from a-c? I can't believe they put this on sankaku... ">_>
I saw something on tv not long ago about making clothes and things from cat fur... I find using human hair far more disgusting though
I don't see anything disgusting about it. If you have a natural resource being continuously extruded from your own or your animal's body, why not put it to good use? Isn't that one of the basic principles of farming?
Cool.....
Damn, I'd love to get a human-hair coat for myself. Does the article mention anything about its qualities of absorbing/retaining/repelling water?
Also, is it hand-wash only? Inquiring minds want to know!
According to the source article, they recommend shampooing the clothes.
Head n Shoulders or Pantene?
Heaven forbid you'd have to use Head n Shoulders...
The mind boggles as to where the dandruff would come from. Spontaneous generation?
TIMOTE! TIMOTE! TIMOTE!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article626473.ece
Relevant UK article.
so
itchy
Those clothes look like it emits gamma radiation.
that hat looks.... hairy... @____@
me want a red one!
it must be really itchy
Remeber Borat when he said in Kazakhstan one of their products t was that they export was pubic hair, it was used to clean pots and pans...LMAO