Sheerly Genius is applying technology to an age-old problem: Hosiery that rips too easily.
For any woman who's ever confronted the age old problem of pantyhose that tears easily, one start-up is using technology to come to the rescue.
"The strongest material I could think of was kevlar," Katherine Homuth, CEO of Sheerly Genius, told CNBC recently."Ultimately I found a fabric that was 100 denier, but was ridiculously strong." "When we got our first prototype I gave them to my husband and some of his friends and said okay, can you guys try to tear through these? Ultimately we were able to get through them with a fire poker" said Homuth. She added the tights can't be cut with scissors, and certainly hold up against everyday sourges like rings and velcro.
For Homuth one of the hosiery's biggest attractions was its environmental sustainability. She mentioned that every year, more than $2 billion worth of U.S. pantyhose sales eventually end up in landfills. Each pair takes more than 50 years to decompose, she said.
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