A hook-and-eye closure is a simple and secure method of fastening garments together. It consists of a metal hook, commonly wire bent to shape, and an eye...

about hook-and-eye closures on a greatly reduced scale. Hook-and-eye fasteners have been common for centuries, but what was new about hook-and-loop fasteners...

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vehicles Hook (hand tool), also known as longshoreman's hook and bale hook, a tool used for securing and moving loads Hook-and-eye closure, a clothing...

A back closure is a means for fastening a garment at the rear, such as with a zipper, hooks-and-eyes or buttons. Back closures were once common on Western...

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differentiate them from hook-and-eye closures, which were also used in large quantities, in both base and precious metals, in the 15th and 16th centuries. Documentary...

were constructed of elasticized fabric and sometimes fastened with hook and eye closures. In the 1960s, the now traditional longer model did not suit the...

A wrist clasp is a mechanism made of a metal hook and an eye closure, used for closing the wrist opening on a tunic. Wrist clasps are considered to be...

with the join in the front centre, secured by lacing, buttons, a hook-and-eye closure or a zip. A zip can also be on the back or the side. Traditionally...

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ribbons, and often incongruously paired with ruby slippers. Both the pinafore and blouse are fastened at the back using a hook-and-eye closure. Dorothy...

something about the wearer, and were probably not much used for fastening. Clothing in ancient Greece Cloak Hook-and-eye closure "Pair of Eagle Fibula". The...

knees and had a pleated hem, and a nearly-identical chugai (Ukrainian: чугай), which had two double sets of hook-and-eye closures. Cherkeskas and chemerkas...

call attention to the wearer by cut, color, or any other feature. Hook-and-eye closures or straight pins are used as fasteners on dress clothing rather...

measured, so that each company had its own standards. Multiple hook and eye closures were introduced in the 1930s that enabled adjustment of bands. Prior...

back, forming an X-shape. It was secured with hook-and-eye closures. The underwire bra design emerged and took hold in the United States starting in the...

the 20th century, where it is the front opening that can be secured close and is covered hidden by fabric. Trousers have varied historically in whether...

removing elements or altering the silhouette, usually via zips, hook and eye closures or other fastenings. Throughout history it has been used to tailor...

young man with an inflamed eye. In Boston, John Collins Warren (1778–1856) performed a crude limited vitrectomy for angle closure glaucoma. Options for anesthesia...

is also credited with inventing a "stitchless press stud" and the "stitchless hook and eye". In America, Jack Weil (1901–2008) put snaps on his iconic...

engineer George de Mestral in the 1950s. It is the original manufacturer of hook-and-loop fasteners, which de Mestral invented. Swiss electrical engineer George...

used in home dress-making (belt end being secured with the simple hook-and-eye) and was purely used for decoration for items such as shoe fronts to conceal...

the back, using a hook and eye fastener, although bras are available in a large range of styles and sizes, including front-fastening and backless designs...

hand-sewing, is a long slender tool with a pointed tip at one end and a hole (or eye) to hold the sewing thread. The earliest needles were made of bone...

basic collar types along with stand and roll collars. It is cut to fit around the neckline, following the curve, and to lie flat upon the torso. It can...

buttoned to the neck, by unbuttoning and turning back the upper part of the closure at an angle indoors or in hot weather, and then removing the upper buttons...

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fabric that is attached to the opening in order for the fasteners (buttons, hooks, press studs) to be sewn to it. In modern usage, the term placket often...

of turned-back cuffs is to protect the cloth of the garment from fraying, and, when frayed, to allow the cuffs to be readily repaired or replaced, without...