Word: fabricate
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...riveted look," using work-clothes grippers for fasteners and ornamentation. She introduced the "diaper" bathing suit -and in 1942 she started the craze for ballet slippers. Necessity mothered that invention: unable because of wartime shortages to get the proper shoes for her showroom models, McCardell put them all in fabric Capezio ballet slippers. The fad caught on, and she still suggests designs for many Capezio shoes...
Styling a uniform has its own special problems. For example, the fabric must be tough enough to stand frequent laundering, and the uniform must be comfortable and easily changed. It must look attractive, but not be too sexy. Says Cooper: "There is an invisible boundary line we cannot cross when styling a nurse's uniform. It must look professional...
...Houston, Surgeon W. Sterling Edwards reported the successful use of a prefabricated nylon tube to replace a damaged femoral artery. Within a month after the operation at the Medical College of Alabama, the patient had good circulation in his foot. Unlike hand-fashioned fabric arteries, the new model (produced by Decatur, Ala.'s Chemstrand Corp.) does not fray or kink, thus does not cause "wrinkle thrombosis...
Between world wars, when Douglas Bader was a cocky, teen-age R.A.F. cadet, the planes he flew were as perky as their pilot. Light wood, fabric and singing wire, they could bounce to a landing on some farmer's field as handily as they touched down on military runways. Flat-hatting across the countryside with his face in the slipstream, a man could navigate by eye and the nearest railroad track and fly by the seat of his pants...
...Human problems are the fabric of the legal suit," Stryker stated. He explained that understanding of these problems, and the wit to structure them are learned from the lives of great men, from one's personal experience, and from the pages of history...