---
title: "These Clothes Grow with Your Child and Are a Step Towards Sustainable Fashion"
description: "Aerospace Engineer Ryan Yasin from London created a material that grows with kids as they mature. His new clothing line is called Petit Pli."
date: "2017-09-11"
modified: "2017-11-30"
authors:
  - name: "Patrick Caughill"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/patrickcaughill"
url: "https://futurism.com/these-clothes-grow-with-your-child-and-are-a-step-towards-sustainable-fashion"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "james dyson award"
  - "modular clothes"
  - "sustainability"
  - "textiles"
---

# These Clothes Grow with Your Child and Are a Step Towards Sustainable Fashion

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/slider_2017_national.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="https://jamesdysonaward.org/" target="\_blank"\>James Dyson Award\</a\>\</em\>*

## Fashion-Forward Infants

Each year, college students and recent graduates submit their creations to the James Dyson Awards to be recognized for achievement in design and engineering. National winners were recently announced and included a cup for [Parkinson's sufferers](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/new-study-finds-parkinsons-is-partly-an-autoimmune-disease>), a smart pill bottle to help fight opioid addiction, and a novel new way to clothe kids.\[infographic postid="36293"\]\[/infographic\]

The latter was designed by Ryan Yasin from London. Yasin has a degree in aeronautical engineering and used the principles he learned during his studies to create a material that grows with kids as they mature. His clothing can help save parents some of the thousands of dollars they [spend prividing clothes](<https://www.aviva.com/media/news/item/uk-parents-spend-28-billion-on-nations-under-fives-each-year-17488/>) for their children within the first three years of their lives.

The clothing is made from a waterproof, machine-washable fabric that is specially pleated to unfold as the child grows. Yasin has dubbed his line Petit Pli. So far, he has developed over 500 prototypes and will use his prize money to help his business also expand.

![Image credit: Petit Pli](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1108.jpg>)
*Image credit: Petit Pli*

## Novel Solutions

While this one product can't have a gigantic impact on increasing sustainability in the textile and clothing industries, [Yasin is determined](<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/07/origami-inspired-clothing-range-that-grows-with-your-child-wins-dyson-award>) to make a stand with his company. The material used in the clothing is recyclable and is also aiming to price his products to be able to ethically pay everyone along the supply chain.

Children grow out of their clothing at a much faster rate before they reach their third year. Children's clothing makers and retailers capitalize on this and often charge parents prices similar to what they may pay for their own or older siblings' clothing, but get much less utility as the kids rapidly outgrow them. Yasin's products could help reduce the amount of waste produced from kids' clothes, to say nothing of the recyclable-value of his materials.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-caughill-74178a61>)