Anti-aging clothes? Really?

Can clothes make you younger?

I don’t mean dressing hip, or nipping and tucking with Spanx.  I mean clothes that reverse the signs of aging.

Here’s the hype:

WearRepair, a line of leggings, tanks and shirts, claims to reduce wrinkles and hyper-pigmentation (aka age spots), and improve overall skin texture.  The magic ingredient is copper oxide engineered into the fabric. Presumably, cooper oxide stimulates the production of capillaries and collagen (the connective tissue that supports the skin), the same process touted by many anti-aging beauty facial cremes.  Huffpost, The Gloss, NYC radio and Rachel Ray have fueled the hype.

Looking for proof, are you?

The Rachel Ray show did a 30-day trial with her audience, members of which reported that they saw significant decrease in age spots after the second week.

Okay, I said, like, proof, as in some research, some scientific evidence?

The benefits of copper peptides for tissue regeneration (particularly effective in healing wounds and skin lesions) were discovered back in the 1970s when they were widely tested and documented with clinical evidence.  Theoretically, it is possible that intact skin might react in healing ways.  But there is very little research on the cosmetic and anti-aging use of cooper.  And none (except for Rachel Ray’s audience) on cooper-infused clothing.

Best way clothing can prevent premature aging?  Wear it to protect your skin against sun exposure.  Tanned skin is damaged skin.