Neon Spandex



Jamie likes to bike on weekend afternoons wearing neon spandex that is ablaze with color. When she's not wearing either her lime or neon pink shorts, she likes the shiny stretchy leggings in the form of capris worn under a short summer dress. Men like it too, as she peddles by with legs moving smoothly up and down. She gets all their attention which is supposed to be paid to rinsing their cars as water pours out a misdirected hose. The legwear seems to glow, fitting snugly against her skin, with it's moisture wicking material. Durable and comfortable, she rides along on her way.



After her bike ride, she'll head for the beach with her bight new summer wear because she's a woman who doesn't mind attracting attention. The 4-way stretch material makes her shorts a perfect fit. When she gets hot, she'll take a swim in the cool waters, and return to sip on margaritas, while she does her own share of watching the guys strut up and down the water, toes and heels leaving their mark in the sand.

The florescent material is wonderful for her to wear, whether she is exercising at the gym, moving like a praying mantis at her yoga class, or just out shopping at a department store or eating lunch at a sidewalk cafe. But the neon colors didn't' just happen overnight. They are the cumulative result of more than two thousand years of effort in developing color brightness and fastness in dyes. One of the earliest literary referencess to dyes is taken from a neo-Babylonian cuneiform tablet from the 7th century BC, where is referenced the process for dying wool to the color of "lapis," the same color of a semi-precious blue stone known at the time to be from northeastern Afghanistan. Indigo was another favorite dye, and the name of India can be traced from English to Italian, from Italian through Roman Latin, through Roman Latin to the Greek word for dye, indikon. But these dyes did not have the brightness that the wearers of today's neon dyed clothing enjoy.