IF YOU haven’t heard of social clothing then before you’re in for a treat.

Commissioned especially for Southampton, Huddlehood is ‘wearable art’.

It is made for people to get inside and interact with each other - and it has now arrived in the city.

The art work is partly to represent technology’s all-encompassing hold on society.

But is mainly just a good excuse for people to just get together.

The project is a work by Dublin based artist Rhona Byrne, whose work is also owned by tech giant Facebook.

The yellow hooded capes and interconnected baseball caps are housed in a big yellow box which sits slap bang in the middle of Guildhall Square in the city centre.

Rhona said: “I hope people come and experience it for themselves and use the clothes to connect with other people in a real time way, away from any distractions.

“I hope people get involved because they will activate the art.”

With a timber frame built by Thornhill based company Nolan Davis Contracting the box will be in Southampton for the rest of the summer.

Builder Graham Knowlton, who put the box together, said: “We spend a lot of our time doing toilet refurbishments and things so it makes a nice change.”

As previously reported, Huddlehood is part of the John Hansard Gallery’s ‘Summer in the Square’, a series of new commissions made for the city.

Huddlehood is open to the public every day from 10-6pm until September 3.

The summer art programme is part of the build-up to the opening of the opening of the £25million arts centre Studio 144 later this year..

They include David Batchelor’s Flags which will be installed on 17 Above Bar lamppost banner sites from August 4

Markus Bergstrom’s pavilion will go up in the first week of August with a programme yet to be finalised.

Istanbul Biennial’s work ‘A Good Neighbour’ will also be installed in the first week of August on Studio 144 windows of both John Hansard Gallery and Nuffield Southampton Theatres.