The current level of stress suggests a paradigmatic shift within our lifestyles. Since the turn of the millennium,  the awareness upon stress and anxiety has risen, announcing both to be perceived as an average and common term, closely related with all layers of society. 

​Environment provides humanity with certain harsh incentives and demands, which, as long as their intensity and frequency are within the limits of human tolerance, can stimulate his motivation and enhance his productivity. However, when these environmental demands become excessive or, conversely, when they become scarce, the balance of incentives for creativity will be upset and as a result neither the excess nor the absence of these stimuli will be compatible with and conduct to a healthy adaption in life.

A number of tests have shown the discomfort of wearing a fixed physical shield (dress-code), unadjusted for the individual, limited from the lack of capacity to move freely - framing the physical borders, along the psychological behavior.

The tests also showed the need in particular to express this caption and break free of its restrictions.

The sociological template of society is unadjusted for its participants. Immense expectations upon choice, behavior, sexuality and general behavior patterns rely upon the individual.

The Stress_Dress (wear_aware) is a project seeking to increase the awareness of self-inflicted sociological patterns, creating stress within the participants of any society.

The project was started in 2006, during studies at METÁFORA