you I'm going to move around between the podium and this uh chair I'm wearing a girdle not just to emphasize my girlish curves but I've got a ruptured disc in my back so I'm going to kind of be moving moving back and forth and self-medicating a bit uh as we as we uh
talk. The Apollo spacesuit, that is to say this object, was made of 21 different layers of fabric each with a separate function, each hand stitched by women taken from the bra and girdle assembly lines at the Playtex Corporation. And the talk today will be assembled much like the suit itself in 21 different layers or anecdotes dealing with different topics that add up to make a comprehensive and robust picture of what this object was and why it was the way it was.
his homosexuality and and as a result he was tried and he was condemned to uh and Girdle of course at this point was was a a hermit in his office who didn't come out for years at the time was
It's kind of crazy. But it needs to gird or support what you're doing artistically.
In Dakar, I'm working with the World Bank to kind of put their infrastructure directly in the continent and not just have it in America, As steel girder construction and reinforced concrete really kind of radically changed the way architecture worked in the last century, what kind of new upcoming construction
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. These are called Venuses girdle.
And by comparison, it is not so exciting. It's just a square box girder bridge, and it's workman like, it functions, I mean, it's reliable. It was built to have trains go across it, which again, this was a new technology of the day.
Google, but it's easy, I think many of you have probably never put a girdle on your skin, but now I'm putting a girdle on you, I've made a girdle, so then, like this, you tighten the girdle, especially for people with a chin, it comes from below, so look, lift it up from the line and keep lifting it up,
his homosexuality and and as a result he was tried and he was condemned to uh he uh finished the other half of Girdle's theorem, the the independence halfothesis and and I'll point out just
I wouldn't worry about that. So I try to encourage people to kind of gird for that battle a little bit and realize, OK, yeah, this is bad for you.
So that that cognitive augmentation also is going to make new things possible. Just like the steam shovel or the steel girder or the steel beam in the physical world, cognitive augmentation allows people to do new things that they couldn't do before.
built out of wrought iron. And his technique was not to build a bridge with huge steel girders that fought off the wind, but to build lightweight structures which allowed the wind to blow through.
It's very light. The weight of the air within the bounds of the Eiffel Tower is less than the weight of the wrought iron used to construct it. There are 18,000 girders there. And the base is 125 meters on every side.
So what our task has been with that of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the UNDP-- the United Nations Development Program-- When they run, their shoulder girdles and hip girdles are not connected.
But in the late 1930's Spanel figured out a way to make latex durable enough to make, replacing the fabric and whale bone corsets of the time with rubber girdles, what he called "the living girdle" since it was made from a living material. In the post-war era of course Playtex became vastly popular, vastly successful as a company. Its headquarters were in the Empire State Building. Spanel moved into Drumthwacket, the mansion that
And ended up there. He'd had plenty of early failures, maybe they would gird him against the downfall that so many people worried about.
This is what our house looked like when we moved in. It's got good fall color, can climb our trees without girdling them, without pulling them down.
Steam and rail were what is driving him there. And he said that he-- he has Puck say in "Midsummer Night's Dream," "I'll put a girdle round about the earth in 40 minutes."
his homosexuality and and as a result he was tried and he was condemned to uh Gle and the rumor is or the anecdote is that when he showed the proof to Girdle
his homosexuality and and as a result he was tried and he was condemned to uh covered in papers that when he showed him the proof of the independent side of the hypothesis girdle said ah yes that's
or feminized sociality. So I think about something like famously, when he was on that show, his weight fluctuated a lot, and famously, he was forced to wear girdle and like dealt
When I read other people's work, I feel like sometimes I can see the joints and the beams and the girders in a way that I couldn't before.
The steel frame and glass windows can't contain it, and it bursts onto the road like a flaming oil slick-- a torrent sliding over the bridge's girders
30s, before you know it, your face starts to get heavy and you get a heavy chin. And this is n't from Shop Channel, but this lifts your face three times, three times! It lifts your face with a girdle, and I actually developed this, it's made of 24k gold and platinum. It contains pearls, it's a truly amazing
yes, it's really amazing, the royal family, the royal family of Dubai, have all started using it, so I've come to show you Google, but it's easy, I think many of you have probably never put a girdle on your skin, but now I'm putting a girdle on you, I've made a girdle, so then, like this, you tighten the girdle, especially for people with a chin, it
It was the biggest engineering feat of the whole project, was removing the large number of massive steel girders that made that square technically possible--taking them all out,
So, here, the decking has been removed so that you can see the girders below.
Sam Calagione: I'm gonna move around between the podium and this chair. I'm wearing a girdle
system with advice from Stanley Marcus, the proprietor of Neiman Marcus. He turned fashion into a massive business, a massive organizational enterprise as well as a couture assembly. And the last point of relevance with our story is that undergirding all of these new looks especially in fashion in the post-war era was this distinctive devise the girdle which shaped and gave architecture to women's bodies in a way that wasn't necessarily comfortable but lined up with the visual and aesthetics of the era.
a moment, came into place that the concept was abandoned. To talk about a very different kind of body it's about time that I presented to you the history of this particular company: the Playtex Bra and Girdle Company that was in the end to create the clothing worn on the surface of the moon. In describing his new look Christian Dior himself had said, "Without foundations there can be no fashion." And these foundations,
and they made the rest of the suits for Apollo. So how was the suit actually made? Well it's mostly made by hand and it was mostly made by women taken from the bra and girdle assembly lines of the rest of the Playtex company who had to sew to one-sixty-fourth of an inch tolerance 21 layers of thin, gossamer thin fabric, each slightly larger to the next, it was like a giant Russian doll, all without
through electronic simulation and prefabricated designs. interesting one. Because we should remember in the context of the way in which a spacesuit was made from a girdle was made from a tire, we should remember that to fashion means on