Twelve Stupid Ideas You Wished You’d Had

Sally Ember, Ed.D.:

I LOVE inventors!

Originally posted on Albert Jack:

The UK General Election Billboard (2015)

Spanx

In 1996 a twenty-five-year-old graduate of Florida State University, Sara Blakely, started working for an office-supply company selling fax machines. Part of the company’s dress code included ladies wearing tights (that’s pantyhose if you are reading this in America), which Blakely resented in the hot sunshine of Florida as she liked to wear sandals. However, she did like the way the top section of the tights made her look slimmer, or firmer, and eliminated underwear lines that were visible through her outer clothing. Blakeley experimented by cutting them off just above the knee but found the material rolled up her legs as she walked around. She then spent the next two years trying out various materials before filing for a patent. Her Spanx underwear was initially rejected by every manufacturer and retail outlet she approached over the following three years until Highland Mills…

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