Tempered clothing--an investment in good appearance (1921)
The House of Kuppenheimer, Chicago. [from old catalog] · [Chicago] The House of Kuppenheimer · leaf 34
heat and moisture, cooling and shrink-age. The cloth is then pressed by hotrolls in order to give it proper luster andto set or close the pattern; that is,to give the proper damp-resisting per-manent wave to every fiber and to insurethat the fibers are meshed in such a wayas to preserve both… … Ninety ton press with cardboard sheets and hotmetal plates for pressing lustrous fabrics worsteds are not roll-pressed. Insteadthey are folded over sheets of polishedcardboard, then placed in a press betweenhot steel plates and given from 80 to 90tons pressure for a whole night. Thislays the pile…
Clothing and dress
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