The New York Times reports that the fur is starting to gain a foothold, showing up not only on Etsy, but also on designs by Oscar de la Renta and Marc Jacobs.
Once you are in, however, you can use your foothold to move up into the fat contracts.
Since graduating from Georgetown in 2000, Mr. Birbiglia, 30, has gradually gained a foothold in stand-up, though it was not his plan when he was growing up in Shrewsbury, Mass., or while in college.
It was Gould's recordings of Goldberg that really provided me with a way in, with a foothold, because up to that point, I had thought of, for lack of a better word, "classical" music as being something that was fairly rhythmically disconnected from the body.
Wales lacked tempo in the first half, when they failed to do anything in an attacking sense, despite Bale's latent menace, but they were slightly better after the interval, when they came to gain footholds higher up the pitch.
I thought that the combination of bone-dry pitches and footholds, decent run-ups, and fair weather, with delayed start, apparently on account of damp patches 40 or more yards from the bat, was a thing of the past.
They have a foothold, but need to scale up".
"Alternative Care Gains a Foothold" (front page, Jan . 31 points up the increasing popularity of alternative treatments.
For Mr. Santana, it was an opportunity to establish a foothold in a region shaping up to be a frontier for political consulting as some African economies expand.
The US also moved to step up its own foothold in the Arctic, with Obama bringing forward the commissioning of a new icebreaker.
