It's Rock Ridgeway's Amazing 1-Piece 'Cameleon' Garment
Video 5min. In Taos, New Mexico: Rock Ridgeway demonstrates his amazing one piece garment "The Cameleon".
There is no piece of clothing or clothing style quite like The Cameleon.
It's a one piece completely convertible piece of clothing that Rock designed many years ago, and that he has been selling to people for a long time.
This is part of the presentation Rock Ridgeway has given to zillions of people at Renaissance Fairs throughout America.
Over the years Rock has sold tens of thousands of the Cameleon, a unique, marvelous, fun, multi-functional garments that can be used dozens of ways.
It makes into 5 different dresses, 2 skirts, pants, poncho, tunic, cape, hauling bag, and much more.
The Cameleon garment can be worn by men and women and is available in utility and designer fabrics.
Rock is helped out by Glory in this video.
Home-Video style by J. R. Ransom.
From Mother Earth News
"In today's world, it seems that each new product is designed to serve a single function," notes Rock Ridgeway, of a firm called AtOM SEED (Synergetic Environmental Ecological Devices) System. "Instead of having thousands of such items, we ought to develop tools with multiple uses." And that's the concept behind the "Cameleon", a garment and liv ing device that Rock first imagined while on a trek in Colorado.
"With 45 pounds of inspiration on my back, I began to ponder ways that I could lighten my load," he recalls. "A mental inventory brought me to the realization that I was carrying a pack, poncho, tent, parka, and sleeping bag all made of nylon. It seemed to me that a single, more efficient, shape could fulfill all the functions served by that gear with less bulk and weight.
"After three years of trial and error, the first Cameleon—a meter-per-side hexagon of cloth with a tube, of the same material, in its center—was developed. By folding it, zipping it, buttoning it, and/or gathering its drawstrings, the user can adapt the fabric shape to serve one purpose after another . . . almost ,as quickly as the reptile it's named (though not spelled) after can change its hue For example while on an outdoor expedition, you could wear one Cameleon as a shirt, a second as ; pair of pants, and a third as a cape . . . and carry a fourth as a backpack. Then—when you arrive at your campsite—your shirt becomes your pillow . . . your pants evolve into a sleeping bag. . . your cape is transformed into a dropcloth... and your backpack unfolds into a tent. Read More at Mother Earth News.
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