Velcro Fasteners
As Reported By Mike Kelly
VELCRO® brand fasteners close with just a touch and hold things securely –like doll clothes!
People everywhere know and love the "RRRIPPP" sound of fasteners. It's the sound of an original brand that stands for making people's lives easier, more convenient, or simply more fun. VELCRO products are used in many creative and practical ways. Velcro fasteners allow for easy opening and closing of clothing – perfect for our sex dolls!
One lovely summer day in 1948, a Swiss amateur-mountaineer and inventor decided to take his dog for a nature hike. The man and his faithful companion both returned home covered with burrs, the plant seed-sacs that cling to animal fur in order to travel to fertile new planting grounds. The man neglected his matted dog, and with a burning curiosity ran to his microscope and inspected one of the many burrs stuck to his pants. He saw all the small hooks that enabled the seed-bearing burr to cling so viciously to the tiny loops in the fabric of his pants.
George de Mestral raised his head from the microscope and smiled thinking, "I will design a unique, two-sided fastener, one side with stiff hooks like the burrs and the other side with soft loops like the fabric of my pants. I will call my invention 'Velcro' a combination of the word velour and crochet. It will rival the zipper in its ability to fasten."
Mestral's idea met with resistance and even laughter, but the inventor 'stuck' by his invention. Together with a weaver from a textile plant in France, Mestal perfected his hook and loop fastener. By trial and error, he realized that nylon when sewn under infrared light, formed tough hooks for the burr side of the fastener. This finished the design, patented in 1955. The inventor formed Velcro Industries to manufacture his invention. Mestral was selling over sixty million yards of Velcro per year. Today it is a multi-million dollar industry.
If you want to keep your doll from tearing, convert their clothes to Velcro fasteners:
1) Cut the item apart with scissors.
2) Glue a few Velcro fasteners on each side with fabric glue
3) Let dry for 24 hrs. Pull item around doll and fasten in place
4) This works especially well for hanging dolls
Do all your doll clothes this way – the fasteners are cheap – but will protect your doll and its clothes from damage. Most doll tears happen when putting on and taking off clothing.
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