Lastex

American  

[las-teks] / ˈlæs tɛks /

Trademark.

1. a brand of yarn made from a core of latex rubber covered with fabric strands.

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Example Sentences

Burns gave her some professional advice: get out of her new red velvet slacks and into black Lastex and cashmere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lastex, thread with a rubber core which makes cloth that stretches two ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the two-way stretch allowed corseted women to move about with freedom; the Lastex, carefully moulding the figure, kept the corset fitted snugly to the body.

From Time Magazine Archive

Du Pont-trained in a healthy respect for new products, he pepped up the company's research department and pop out of the hat came Lastex, the yarn with the two-way stretch.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wore those white Lastex kind of swimming trunks, and he was always going off the high dive.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger