Word: spandexed
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Before pulling on the two-piece, leotard-like, nylon spandex suit, customers are advised to cover their bodies with a light film of greaseless Isotoner Motion Cream. Any movement, explains Aris Gloves, the manufacturer, then causes the suit and cream to work "synergistically." The suit will knead the cream into the body and the fiber will produce an "isometric push-pull action" that makes the whole operation a kind of wear-a-massage...
Isotoner advertising carefully skirts the issue of weight reduction, claiming only to make wearers look and feel thinner. The nylon spandex suit is in effect a top-to-toe lightweight girdle that feels, one wearer told San Francisco's I. Magnin & Co., "better than a lover's caress...
...made a considerable impact on the nation's language and life. Besides nylon, Dacron and cellophane, the firm has contributed a whole lexicon of names, many of which sound like something right out of science fiction. While a man dons his suit of orlon and his socks of Spandex in the morning, his wife may be wriggling into a Lycra girdle, an Antron slip, Cantrece hose-or the Warner "body stocking," a new fashion rage made of Du Font's stretch nylon...
...result: a versatile, sure-fire way to convert every conventionally rigid fabric in the world into stuff that stretched up and down, back and forth, to and fro, and never once ran out of breadth. Accordingly, a whole new galaxy of stretch fabric appeared, all developed around a spandex core, ranging from brocade to burlap, taffeta to twill. Not all of them cling to the skin, but the stretch qualities let them give when and where they have...
...Little Old Lady. But no one stood to benefit more than the 20 million American women who cannot fit into standard-size fashions without major alterations. For them, spandex means clothes that will give a little here or there and keep them out of the hands of the little old lady who lets out seams and fixes the collar lines. Even high-style couturiers, who have a tendency to sniff at anything not imported from foreign showrooms, showed high-style appreciation. Some-like Oleg Cassini and Hannah Troy-went so far as to rush right in with some select stretch...