Tanned and jaunty, he sports a blue, single-breasted suit with functional buttons on the sleeve, an orange tie with a golfing motif, a blue-and-white-checked shirt and brown shoes.
Seams and joints in the brass tubing were often reinforced by ornate but functional metal tubes and rings (sleeves and pommels).
The push buttons on the finger sleeves are still fully functional and still allow the user to click and scroll even if the switch is off.
It was previously shown9 that, for a surgically removed rabbit heart being kept functional in the laboratory, a stretchable, sleeve-like electronic device surrounding the heart can detect data such as temperature, pH and mechanical strain.
As for innovations in vinyl packaging, there are some next-level plain sleeves turned into sorta-functional objects.
Working clothes must have short sleeves.
From fully functional surfing rash guards at Mara Hoffman to structured shoulders and a cap sleeve bikini at Suboo, swim expanded into territory it hasn't fashionably covered since women wore full-body bathing dresses and lacked the right to vote.
In 1913, inspired by that breakthrough, the designer Carl Jantzen made the first functional two-piece swimwear, a close-fitting one-piece with shorts on the bottom and short sleeves on top.
But given that Mr. Bastian, like many fashion designers, makes clothes that look more luxuriously functional than they act, it's refreshing to hear that he has good tips up his sleeve.
