So, for example, if you have a pair of sweatpants on, usually the sweatpants will have an elastic band on the top so that if you are a little skinnier or a little fatter, the pants will still fit you.
He loitered among the fallow rose bushes and the beds of damp sweet indistinguishable fern. It was warm for October but cool enough to wear a heavy tweed coat buttoned by a little elastic tape at the neck.
She was wearing a pink silkdress with a corsage of artificial pansies pinned to her left shoulder, her cordovan shoes, with buckles and low heels, and sateen stockings held up at the thighs with elastic garters.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and sitting on the plush couch, she slowly and carefully pulled off her elastic-sided boots and stood them side by side.
Course they've never called him round the gatehouse when he's been shifting little wood robots held together with elastics, or them carved ducks on a string.