Where once workers had to bend awkwardly to hold and whack headliners into place on the car's ceiling, a headliner now has sewn-in magnets that keep it in place on the roof's metal frame.
There are 850 hand-sewn stitches in each collar, so it lies flat, he intones, using the jacket he was wearing as an example.
The couple would wear traditional dress, with the bride usually wearing a traditional fabric gifted to her by her new parents-in-law, sometimes sewn into a modern Afrocentric design.
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When he first got the uniform, Scheinman and his archivist, Elise Rousseau, looked for clues that the patch had been removed bits of glue in case it had been an iron-on, or thread holes in case it had been sewn on.
Custom-made for 17-year-old Garland in 1939, the frock has a 27-inch waist and her name sewn on the inside hem.
The dolls are still hand-sewn, and the first store we were in had other handmade toys going for several hundred dollars.
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For the white Talbot-Runhof dress, a base fabric was embroidered with sequins, sewn to the dialysis-machine filter fabric and then bathed in a liquid that dissolved the base, leaving fringes of sequins attached to the filter-cum-dress.
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Hippies and yuppies rub shoulders during the event held on Alberta Street in Northeast Portland, and "hipsters showcase their latest patched vintage tweed jacket and creative take on facial hair to crowds that take in food truck fare, art, hand-sewn sock puppets, glass blown jars and any other obscure item your heart might ever have desired, " Moon writes.
Within about a half-hour, the retired computer network engineer had sewn up a sizeable gash in the portrait and was testing settings that might provide more visual data to help clean the apparently sepia-toned image.
If NBC has the Net rights sewn up, which it believes it does, then the dot-coms may not have much to talk about in Lausanne.
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