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By Julie Austin - Inventor

After making the molds for the bottles, I would need to find a company to sew the bands. I found a factory in Los Angeles to make some prototypes for me and I tested them on the bottles. I ended up with a thick terry cloth band that had to be threaded through a small slit in the bottle. Since the factory didn’t do that part of the labor, I carried 1,000 bands home and started the painstaking task of assembling them in my living room. After several hours of doing this, my fingers were raw and bleeding. And I had only put together a total of 100 bottles, or 50 sets.

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