Sartorial splendour doesn't come cheap: these Space Invaders tights will set you back $80 Earth dollars. But I'd hold your skateboard at the arcade if you were wearing 'em.

Space Invaders tights (via Geekologie)

Fetish: Wired's choice of watches

By Chris Finnamore |27 November 2009

LG watch phone (left)

This is no bigger than a chunky digital watch, and has only a couple of buttons; you access most functions via the touchscreen, swiping your finger up, down, left and right to flick through the menus. And, yes, there is an integrated camera for those Dick Tracy video calls. £500 (on Orange pre-pay only) lge.com

Mr Jones Cyclops (centre)

The Cyclops is the antidote to an accuracy-and efficiency-obsessed world. The hands have been replaced by a disc that passes over coloured dots representing the hours. You can tell what time it is, albeit not to a particularly exact degree - but that's the point, so just relax and be fashionably late... £125 mrjoneswatches.com

Swatch Mister Twin snowpass (right)

A gradually disintegrating ski pass flapping in the wind is not cool - you're far better off loading your pass onto Mister Twin's chip, then waving your watch at the turnstile's sensor to gain access to the chair lift. You also get a stopwatch and water-resistance to 30 metres. £72 swatch.co.uk

Cognitime Døgn (left)

Cognitime claims this watch is inspired by Norway's light Arctic summer nights, "giving you an infinite look at your time". Minutes are shown on the outside, and the inner loop is split into 24 segments. You can set a second time-zone as a red block, and mark off chunks in green for forthcoming events. €749 cognitime.no

Toy Watch Jelly Watch range (centre)

Boasting a huge range of retina-searing colours, this US brand has mix-and-match mechanisms and rubber straps which let you create all manner of affronts to good taste. You can go for a simple, single-tone model (see above) - but by ordering online you can build your own clashing neon combination. £125 toywatchusa.com

Tag Heuer Grand Carrera Calibre 36 RS2 Caliper chrono Ti2 (right)

Tag Heuer's Grand Carrera is named after the Carrera Panamericana race, and its design is influenced by GT sports-car engines. The linear second display at 3 o'clock is reminiscent of a 70s speedometer, and the stopwatch can display 1/10th of a second. £5,500 tagheuer.com

Next time you compliment a woman at a party that’s she glowing, it may literally be so. Two London-based designers have created a dress embroidered with 24,000 full color LEDs.

The ‘Galaxy Dress’ claims to be the largest wearable display in the world and it will be the centerpiece of an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

“We used the smallest full-color LEDs, flat like paper, and measuring only 2 by 2 mm,” say designers Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz in an e-mail. “The circuits are extra-thin, flexible and hand-embroidered on a layer of silk in a way that gives it stretch so the LED fabric can move like normal fabric with lightness and fluidity.” The duo run an interactive clothing company called CuteCircuit.

Beyond the LEDs themselves, the Galaxy Dress is crafted in a way that should make the pickiest seamstresses proud.

To diffuse the LED light, the dress has four layers of silk chiffon and a pleated silk organza crinoline skirt. The extra-thin electronics allow the dress to follow the body shape closely like normal fabric.

Instead of having one large and heavy battery, the dress is designed to run on many tiny iPod batteries hiding in the crinoline, says Rosella. “They are not visible or uncomfortable,” she says.

With the batteries, the Galaxy Dress wearer can walk around — all lit up — for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.

The areas without LEDs are decorated with more than 4,000 hand-applied Swarovski crystals that range in color from clear to bright pink.  “The dress looks good even when it is switched off,” say the designers.

So far, the dress hasn’t been worn by any real woman. It went straight from the fitting model to the museum.

See a video of the LED Dress that, according to the designers, consumes about the same electricity as two household bulbs.

Photos: J.B. Spector/the Museum of Science and Industry

A Brazilian university has publicly expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink skirt to class, taking out newspaper ads today to publicly accuse her of immorality.

The private Bandeirante University in São Bernardo do Campo, outside of São Paulo, said 20-year-old Geisy Arruda disrespected "ethical principles and academic dignity and morality".

Arruda made headlines last month when she had to be escorted away by police after she tried to go to class wearing the mini-dress. She put on a professor's white coat and left amid a hail of insults and curses.

Video footage of the incident, which occurred last month, was posted on YouTube and picked up by Brazilian networks.

It shows her being heckled by hundreds of other students. Arruda has since appeared frequently on television, saying she is struggling to return to normal life after being humiliated.

Bandeirante University published advertisements accusing Arruda of attending class with "inadequate clothing" and having a provocative attitude that was "incompatible with the university environment."

In the ad, titled "Educational Responsibility," the college said it had warned Arruda to change her behaviour and decided to expel her after talking to students, staff and Arruda herself. It accused her of posing for pictures and provoking other students.

Arruda told Folha Online that she was appalled. "I was the victim," she said. "How can I be expelled? It's absurd."

Arruda said she learned of her expulsion through the news media and had not received official notification.

She said university officials told her last week she would be allowed to return to classes with the protection of a security guard.

Ralph Lauren fires photo-chopped model for being too big

Filippa Hamilton, the model who Ralph Lauren's ad people crudely photoshopped, is looking for work. Ralph Lauren fired her, she said in an appearance on NBC's Today show this morning, due to her inability to fit into his clothes.

She's 5'10" and 120 lbs.

Update: NY Daily News has a statement from the company:

Polo Ralph Lauren said in a statement Tuesday night that Filippa is a "beautiful and healthy" woman but their relationship ended "as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.

In the same piece, reported by Carrie Melago, her lawyer says that he fears Ralph Lauren's treatment of Hamilton "will be extremely damaging to her."