Jackie Sexton had to look no farther than her father's stomach for inspiration in a contest for practical inventions.

The 11-year-old East Greenwich, R.I., resident won a regional prize for her design of an expandable dress shirt for "pudgy pops."When the contest sponsored by the non-profit Invent America was announced in her sixth-grade class, she immediately thought of a complaint by her father, Richard, that his dress shirts show too much stomach when he sat down.

"My father complained for years about his shirt," she said.

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Jackie split the side seams of one of her father's shirts and sewed in spandex. The shirt was a success the first time he sat down.

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