Besides choosing textiles and other raw materials with specific properties and characteristics of colour, drape, hand, and texture, the designer selects findings buttons, zippers, snaps, grommets, thread, lace, tapes, braids, medallions, sequins, and a variety of ornaments and closures as decorative devices to impart the desired design effect.
Strong ropes (boltropes) are sewn to the luff and foot, and various fittings, such as metal slides, grommets, reef points, cringles, etc., are attached to the sail.
Risqué pieces included a leather dress covered in metal grommets and skirts with thigh-high (or even higher) zip slit, and prettiness came from a digital cloud-print ensemble.
The astronauts removed vibration grommets used to mount the system's distilling centrifuge inside the urine processor and added a few brackets.
Carruth intercuts scenes of the piglets on the farm with scenes of Kris stamping grommets into fabric, creating an association in the viewer's mind: the grommets somehow come to represent the offspring that Kris senses are hers but doesn't have any real-world confirmation of.
He was wearing fingerless black biker gloves that bore silver grommets, etched with the Chanel logo, on each knuckle and were equipped, at the wrists, with small zippers that carried faintly S & M overtones.
The photo is held in place with grommets.
Jackie opened the folder and withdrew his identity card, a small color photograph attached by grommets to a stiff piece of paper.
Armani's perky bikini with oversized grommets and lacing suggests a Hawaiian safari (armaniexchange.com; bandeau, $29 on sale; bottom, also $29).
Amid the shabbiness, the storefronts of the garment district offer wholesale goods and services of appealing specificity: Jonathan Embroidery Plus sells buttonholes and grommets; Trim Art, Inc., offers rhinestone portraits of Che and Biggie that can be applied to T-shirts.
It turned out that he had hearing problems and needed grommets installed in his eardrums.
