And the arrival of relatively lightweight, shoulder-mounted cameras in the late 1950s made it possible for cinéma vérité documentarians and New Wave auteurs to capture the immediacy of life on the fly.
Many of the newer assault rifles were built with lightweight plastic shoulder stocks and magazines, as well as receivers made of aluminum.
Though Goyard's lightweight Saint Louis is a shoulder bag of choice for chic women of any age, the surprise hit of the year is a revisited version of a small pet-carrying bag that the company introduced a year ago.
Huge umbrella hats and lightweight overcoats with enormous shoulder pads to foil recognition software.
But the Europeans remain military lightweights and unwilling to shoulder responsibility.
Wear lightweight padding on your shoulders and chest.
The missiles can be fired from the shoulder, from a lightweight multiple launcher or from armoured vehicles.
He ended on a modern note at least, with lightweight cotton cloaks, pants and flat shoulder bags by Hermès.
Sure there's your laptop, so lightweight it hardly shows that one shoulder is lower than the other from lugging it through all those airports.
Nike also uses special lightweight padding between the knees and shoulders: it'll protect the player, but you won't be walking around with any unnecessary bulk.
