Categoría: Cords

You only realize how unprepared you are for the job market when you land your first job. Because despite the efforts that are being made in the universities, in various degrees there is still a very big gap between the studies and their application in the workplace. Perhaps that difference is not appreciated as much in more technical careers, but it is in more theoretical ones such as art history.

With a very good grade, I applied for my first job, which was an internship contract at a culture department. But there it didn't matter how much knowledge you had, a good part of the work you had to do was cultural mediation, organization of events, contact with the media, with researchers, preparation of exhibitions or book publishing. Virtually none of that was discussed in the race. But that's what we were there for, to learn.

And the first commission I received was to coordinate the design of a packaging case for the publication of a series of books on archeology that the Ministry of Culture would publish. And what did I know about packaging? Well, nothing, but you had to put your batteries.

I took all the notes that my predecessor had that had not finished the job and I spoke with the firms involved from the design studio that had to design the case to the distributor of elastic for handles – CELASTIC that would manufacture the cord to hold the packaging. Details all of them apparently unimportant from my point of view as a recent graduate, but key for the project to be a success.

Of course, the books were the important thing, but imagine that there was a failure in the cords of the case and they came loose at the first change. The blame for the intern of the cases, which was me. So I made sure to contact the best supplier of elastic for handles – CELASTIC while relying on a usual study designed in counseling. Everything went well with this my first job, which helped me to understand that my work from that moment on was going to be very different from getting good grades in university exams.

If you like sewing and you make your own dresses, surely you know the importance that elastic cords can have to create small details. The simplest example we have when creating the waist of the dresses. The elastic band sewn inside the fabric helps to gather it around the waist, making the dress adapt and take much more flight.

The rubber system at the waist has been used since always, because it allows you to take advantage of the dress whether you take a little weight or lose it, as they adapt to different waist sizes. For that reason, in many cases it is used in the maternity dresses, so that the woman can use it throughout the pregnancy or at least a large part of it.

The trick is not to over-tighten the rubber so that in the first months of pregnancy the dress is cut with a little ground and a lot of frowns and, as the months pass, each time will be more stuck at the waist and the fabric will expand to cover the tummy. It is important to note that elastic bands for pregnant women are much better in the area under the chest, since most find it uncomfortable to have anything that fits in the gut.

Elastic bands are also used in the sleeves of the clothes so that the fabric fits the arm or wrist. The puffed sleeves, for example, need those rubber bands inside the fabric to be perfectly adapted to the arm. It is important that they do not squeeze at any time, as they could cut off circulation.

When using elastic tape for the waist of a skirt it is very important that it is very wide, since otherwise it will not only be annoying, but it will not sit well on the body. When the elastic band is wide it is much more similar to the cloth waist and therefore more flattering.

The elastics can also be used on the neckline of the dresses to achieve a very flattering effect, since it allows to play with the raised neckline, the shoulders to the air or even create a strapless neckline without having to change dress or shirt.