{"id":632,"date":"2026-06-27T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:39:08","slug":"its-possible-to-3d-print-an-entire-outfit-now-should-you-is-another-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Possible to 3D Print an Entire Outfit Now. \u2018Should You?\u2019 Is Another Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>YouTuber Matthew Trahan has carved out something of a niche for himself as the guy who 3D prints everything. In previous videos, he\u2019s 3D printed various musical instruments, a bunch of stuff for his bedroom, and, um, himself. His latest video finds him moving into the world of fashion to \u201c[take] on Gucci and Louis Vuitton\u201d by seizing the means of production and 3D printing an entire outfit. Does this point to a cost-effective future for DIY fashion??<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=630\">Every State\u2019s \u2018America 250\u2019 Time Capsule Contributions, Ranked<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trahan\u2019s checklist for this project includes a shirt, a pair of shorts, a pair of shoes, a pair of socks, a belt, a hat, a wallet, a bag, a tie, and some glasses. That\u2019s a lot to get through, and, well, let\u2019s just say that various degrees of success are achieved. You can probably tell from the video thumbnail that this isn\u2019t an <em>entirely<\/em> serious enterprise:<\/p>\n<div><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KK23hWpB2w?feature=oembed\" title=\"I 3D Printed All My Clothes\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u2026and that\u2019s before you\u2019ve seen the shorts:<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing, though\u2014while Trahan\u2019s video is ultimately goofy and fun, some of the stuff he prints is actually kind of cool. The shoe design that he uses, for instance, looks like a Nike fever dream, in a good way:<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you like them, or anything else in the video, all the patterns are available online.<\/p>\n<p>Trahan\u2019s technicolor vest, meanwhile, clearly isn\u2019t super practical, and the less said about the shorts, the better. The problem here isn\u2019t so much the medium as the fact that\u2014as he himself admits readily\u2014Trahan has no idea how to make clothing patterns, and it\u2019s interesting to think about how the hexagonal pattern he uses could\u00a0 be put to good use by an actual designer. <em>Project Runway<\/em> was exploring the idea of incorporating 3D printing into fashion as far back as 2015, and the technology has progressed in leaps and bounds in the decade since Tim Gunn\u2019s band of aspiring designers struggled with the fairly rudimentary devices they were given.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IXnYbqj8sZQ?feature=oembed\" title=\"The Runway's in 3D!\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>In that episode, the contestants struggled to incorporate what the printers of the time had to offer. The stiff, brittle nature of the filament meant that its output was confined to tacked-on accents and design elements, rather than the actual garments themselves. Fast forward to 2026 and Trahan, who is, with all due respect, a dude in shorts, is making actual clothes. Sort of. What a time to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=628\">Trump Is Threatening 100% Tariffs Again, This Time as Retaliation for Taxes on Big Tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But anyway, let\u2019s get down to perhaps the most interesting question here: how much did this entire exercise actually cost?<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The answer depends greatly on how\u2014and to what extent\u2014you factor in the cost of the equipment used. As far as actual materials go, the outfit is pretty cheap\u2014it costs about $100 in filament. But obviously, that filament is no use without a printer to use it. Trahan uses several different machines in his video, but ends up needing a Prusa Core 1L to print his shorts. These retail for $1,999, which suddenly moves this project from \u201ca bit of fun\u201d to \u201cwell, there goes the rent money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also the question of time (and, accordingly, power costs.) At the start of his video, Trahan says that he \u201cjust spent 33 hours modeling [and] 560 hours printing.\u201d The value you place on your time is ultimately up to you, but 560 hours of printing is a lot of printing. Surely that\u2019s going to do terrible things to Trahan\u2019s electricity bill? Well, helpfully, there\u2019s a site that estimates power consumption and costs for a whole bunch of 3D printers. Less helpfully, its database doesn\u2019t yet include the Core 1L, but it <em>does<\/em> include the Core 1\u2014the 1L\u2019s smaller sibling\u2014and another, slightly older Prusa model (the XL) that has roughly the same volume as the 1L. The site puts the US average energy cost at $0.16 per kilowatt hour, and using that figure, it estimates the cost of a 24-hour print for the Core 1 at $0.46 and the XL at $0.69.<\/p>\n<p>If we split the difference, we end up at $0.57 for a 24-hour print. This puts the cost of 560 hours at a whopping $13.30, which is not that much, really. A couple of caveats: the most up-to-date figures from the EIA, which are for April 2026, put the US average slightly higher, at just under $0.19 per kWh, and the actual cost can vary pretty dramatically from state to state. Californians, for instance, pay an average of just under $0.38 per kWh, but if you move across the border into Oregon, you\u2019ll pay only $0.16.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nevertheless, the deciding factors here are a) the cost of the printer and b) your ability to cook up clothing designs that aren\u2019t those shorts. If you already happen to have both a high-end 3D printer sitting around and a vision for some sort of avant-garde fashion piece, knock yourself out. If you only have the latter, though, you\u2019re probably still going to need to learn to use a sewing machine. Sorry. And if you just need a cheap t-shirt, well, there\u2019s always Uniqlo.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=626\">Pacific Palisades Fire Court Case Ends in Mistrial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One plucky YouTuber explores whether 3D printers might let us wrest back the means of production from Big Fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s Possible to 3D Print an Entire Outfit Now. \u2018Should You?\u2019 Is Another Question - Long Haul Moving Pros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=632\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s Possible to 3D Print an Entire Outfit Now. \u2018Should You?\u2019 Is Another Question - 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