A Lesson From My Reading

I'd bought a belt about a year ago, and it recently delaminated (the layers came unglued). I replaced it, and the same problem happened on its replacement. Then, I thought about something that I'd read, I believe in Kenny Moore's excellent biography of Oregon's legendary track coach, Bill Bowerman (Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder), in which one of Bowerman's early lessons on shoes was "glue comes undone, sewing stays together," so when I went to replace the belt again, I got a sewn belt. It seems to be holding, even against by tremendous girth and the pressures thus generated.