{"id":35693,"date":"2021-05-06T17:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/?p=35693"},"modified":"2021-05-06T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:53:46","slug":"engineering-new-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edmondoutlook.com\/engineering-new-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering New Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tamra Gould, was born into a family of engineers. Her dad, sister and cousins are engineers. Even her great-great grandfather, who patented over 100 inventions, was an engineer. But Tamra? She\u2019s artsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI studied fashion design,\u201d Tamra said. \u201cBut I guess growing up around engineers inspired me. For my senior project last year in Georgia, I decided to create textiles that also have problem-solving aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For cyclists, she added a turn signal light into a puffer jacket. She created a new waterproof fabric using Flex Seal. In response to Covid, Tamra invented a jacket with a thermometer system for reading the wearer\u2019s temperature and alerting him or her of fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Tamra graduated in January 2020, she accepted a New York fashion job, which was promptly rescinded because of the shut-down. So, she and her husband, Juan Aguilar, moved to her parent\u2019s house in Edmond and wondered what to do next. They decided to invest their life savings and fabricate Tamra\u2019s clothing designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEngineers don\u2019t typically collaborate with fashion designers,\u201d admitted sister, Tressa Gould. But in this case, the sisters combined their skills to form a new clothing company, Nash Engineered Fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy dad let us take over the upstairs as a sewing room,\u201d Tamra said. \u201cSoon, industrial sewing equipment arrived by semi-truck, and we spent the summer learning how to use it, but on Christmas Eve, we launched our first collection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, it\u2019s a family business. Tamra designs and sews, Juan manages the social media and screen printing, and Tressa cuts the fabric, manages logistics and engineering concepts. They named the company after their great-great grandfather, Lewis Nash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their younger brother Trafford was next invited to join the company. He\u2019s artsy, too. \u201cTrafford has Down Syndrome, but he draws these cool robots and he\u2019s a brilliant engineer in his own way,\u201d Tamra said. \u201cWe use his artwork and he screen prints the garments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students at Edmond North High School selected the Down Syndrome Association as their charity of choice\u2014and hosted a clothing fashion show of Trafford\u2019s drawings. \u201cTwenty-two individuals with Down\u2019s modeled his clothing\u2014and they rocked their outfits!\u201d Juan said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t do the traditional walk, they did whatever they wanted; some danced, did cartwheels, and one even did a breakdance routine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nash Engineered Fashion moved into a store in Oklahoma City this spring, where they design, print and sew clothing in front of their customers. \u201cMost people don\u2019t know how clothes are made. They assume it\u2019s all done by machines, like a car, but clothing is still guided by hand. If you buy one of our garments, it\u2019s been touched by all of us, and it looks as professional as something you would buy from Nike,\u201d Tamra said. \u201cWe try to be sustainable, too, recycling all our fabric scraps into bucket hats or hang tags.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their current clothing line is \u201cathleisure,\u201d which is comfortable streetwear, but Nash hopes to expand further into smart clothing. \u201cOur great-great grandfather published an essay that said, \u2018An engineer is not limited to someone who studied engineering, but comes down to being a leader and an inventor in your chosen field,\u2019\u201d Tressa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this family of artists and<\/em> engineers, no doubt, more patents will be added to the family legacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more visit https:\/\/www.nashengineeredfashion.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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