Word: leatherizing
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...friends) and quantities of "purple hearts" (goofballs). Inevitably, the giggling had to stop, for Clacton's invaders belonged to London's two hostile teen cults: the "Mods" (for Moderns), foppishly dressed youths who drive souped-up, chrome-plated scooters; and the "Rockers," who wear black boots, black leather jackets, drive powerful motorcycles, and scorn the Mods as "queer." The rumble erupted on the second...
...That film did us a lot of harm." The Rockers do not conceal their disdain for the Mods. "The money we spend tripping around and going places, they spend on clothes," sniffs one. For a Rocker, clothes are strictly functional. "People don't seem to realize that a leather jacket is the warmest thing to wear when riding...
Fashionable as it was among Europe's silk-hosed aristocrats, fencing never really caught on in the leather-stockinged American colonies. "When the settlers came to America," explains Ed Lucia, a top U.S. fencing coach, "they came with an ax, not with a sword." Even today many Americans consider the sport effete-incorrectly, for swordsmanship throughout history has been equated with valor, stamina, agility. Fencing is still dominated by the swordsmen of Europe. Frenchmen have won individual foils in seven of the last 13 Olympic competitions. Italian Olympians have won the last six individual épée gold...
...since nylon and Dacron came along has a synthetic product stirred such interest and aggressive merchan dising as Corfam, Du Pont's new substi tute for leather. Put on sale only two months ago after years of develop ment, Corfam is already made in 100 different shoe styles by 32 manufac turers, is in such demand that Du Pont's pilot plant at Newburgh, N.Y., cannot keep up. The company is build ing a full-scale Corfam plant in Old Hickory, Tenn., and another in Malines, Belgium, to supply the European mar ket, is spending...
Cops to Kids. Corfam is already one of the most tested and complex chem ical substances ever created. Porous, scuff-resistant, water-repellent, shape-retaining - the properties are an ad writ er's dream - it is basically a combina tion of polyester and polyurethane made into sheets resembling leather by an incredibly intricate process. Before put ting its shoes on the market, Du Pont passed out 19,000 pairs to human test ers who ranged from the Newburgh police force, through its own salesmen and secretaries, to kindergarten kids...