There was a fire station right next door, but it was December, and in the frigid early morning hours the volunteer firefighters discovered their leather hoses were cracked and a pump did not work.
But the flower shower was an illusion because the clothes, with their mesh hose, leather corsetry and dangling vertical fringes, suggested tough chic.
Plasticized PVC is familiar to consumers as floor tile, garden hose, imitation leather upholstery, and shower curtains.
Leather seemed easiest to hose down if I didn't make it to the bathroom in time.
Industrial uses of nylon fibre include automobile and truck tires, ropes, seat belts, parachutes, substrates for coated fabrics such as artificial leather, fire and garden hoses, nonwoven fabrics for carpet underlayments, and disposable garments for the health-care industry.
Perhaps the show's most unusual works are assemblages made from pots, pans, leather belts and rubber hoses by a totally blind artist named Hawkins Bolden, at the Pardee Collection.
In one of the earliest, "Ali Stoker" (1966-67), pieces of vacuum hose, pipes, steel cable, leather straps, shoes, zippers and even part of a leather-clad figure constitute an all-black tableau of writhing, interpenetrating parts that have distinctly carnal references.
Memorandum on a notebook page found near the Columbia University Campus. 1. Brown leather outfit. 2 White panty hose.
The New Yorker, November 30 , 1968P. 55 Memorandum on a notebook page found near the Columbia University Campus. 1. Brown leather outfit. 2 White panty hose.
By E. P. Beach and Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, November 30 , 1968P. 55 Memorandum on a notebook page found near the Columbia University Campus. 1. Brown leather outfit. 2 White panty hose.
