Article: Florida Woman Takes Chair-Cover Idea Through Patent Process.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 11--Abby Waters' invention and the patent she now holds began with a Thanksgiving dinner party for 18 people.

"I set my beautiful table with the lighted candles and I had folded chairs," Waters said. "I screeched to my husband, `This will never do!'"

Waters spent $200 on slipcovers for the chairs at a national retail chain, but she thought she could do better.

Thus began Waters' entrepreneurial venture, Couture du Jour, French for "fashion of the day."

Waters had been making $60,000 annually, plus a company car and bonuses as a pharmaceutical representative. Despite the good money, she ...

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