Mendel showed many pleated frocks in light and airy fabrications that move with the wind much like the wisteria flowers that inspired his collection.

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"Today, you have ice that can move in with the wind but then just as easily move away, " Delgado says.

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It is this cost imperative that is largely driving the move to create significantly larger wind turbines and blades with far greater wing spans.

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