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

Lastex profits from girdles & gadgets led the way out of Depression.

From Time Magazine Archive

With $65,000 borrowed from Armin's brother in the U.S., the Gottliebs in 1955 bought thousands of yards of Lastex and transformed it into bathing suits.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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