{"id":921696,"date":"2026-07-22T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/a-youtuber-3d-printed-an-entire-outfit-but-the-comfort-and-cost-are-more-complicated-than-youd-think\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:12:23","slug":"a-youtuber-3d-printed-an-entire-outfit-but-the-comfort-and-cost-are-more-complicated-than-youd-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/a-youtuber-3d-printed-an-entire-outfit-but-the-comfort-and-cost-are-more-complicated-than-youd-think\/","title":{"rendered":"A YouTuber 3D printed an entire outfit, but the comfort and cost are more complicated than you\u2019d think"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"dt-post-content\" itemid=\"post-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>YouTuber Matthew Trahan has made a career out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/what-is-3d-printing\/\" rel>3D printing<\/a> increasingly unusual things. He has printed musical instruments, bedroom furniture, and, in one particularly memorable video, himself.<\/p>\n<p>His latest project is a full outfit, from shirt to shoes, belt to glasses, because apparently nobody told him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/how-do-3d-printers-work\/\" rel>3D printers<\/a> are for creating engineering prototypes or structures that aren\u2019t otherwise feasible, not for fashion week.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I 3D Printed All My Clothes\" width=\"100%\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KK23hWpB2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>So how did it actually go, and what did it cost?<\/h2>\n<p>Trahan\u2019s checklist for his latest video included ten items: a shirt, shorts, shoes, socks, a belt, a hat, a wallet, a bag, a tie, and glasses. He couldn\u2019t print all of them successfully, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shorts, in particular, look like they belong to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/gaming\/all-minecraft-cheats\/\" rel>Minecraft<\/a> character. Some of the results were genuinely interesting, especially the Waveform shoe design by Stephen Drunks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the cost side, however, the numbers tell a complicated story. The filament came to about $100, which might sound like a bargain until you add the Prusa Core 1L printer he needed specifically to print the shorts, which costs $1,999. He used several different machines across the project.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{\"imageId\":\"dt-img-5986023\"}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/tachyon\/2026\/06\/3D-printed-shorts.jpg?resize=2000%2C1200\" alt=\"Indoors, Interior Design, Accessories\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5986023\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5KK23hWpB2w\" rel=\"nofollow noskim\">Matthew Trahan \/ YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Is this actually the future of DIY fashion?<\/h2>\n<p>Trahan also spent 33 hours on modeling all the different items, but that wasn\u2019t all. He also spent 560 hours, or about 23 days, printing all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Using a power cost estimator, electricity for the 560 hours comes to about $13.30 at the US average rate of $0.16 per kilowatt-hour. The EIA\u2019s April 2026 figure puts that average slightly higher at $0.19 per kWh, and Californians pay nearly $0.38 per kWh (via<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/its-possible-to-3d-print-an-entire-outfit-now-should-you-is-another-question-2000777703\"> Gizmodo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So, we\u2019re looking at $100 in materials, $1,999 in equipment, 593 hours of your life, and a pair of questionable shorts. All the patterns are still available on MakerWorld if you want to give it a shot, but it might be an expensive affair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/3d-printing-your-own-clothes-is-technically-possible-now-but-dont-even-ask-about-its-feasibility\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTuber Matthew Trahan has made a career out of 3D printing increasingly unusual things. He has printed musical instruments, bedroom furniture, and, in one particularly memorable video, himself. His latest project is a full outfit, from shirt to shoes, belt to glasses, because apparently nobody told him 3D printers are for creating engineering prototypes or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":921697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38018,104640,1394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-printed","category-youtube-videos","category-youtuber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}