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...pantaloons, culottes and jump suits among them. Dressed-up pajamas all, most are sold with tops and accompanying overskirts; available in fancy fabrics like embroidered lace (by Courreges, for $800) as well as lighter weight silk jersey (by Pucci, for $210), Fortrel and cotton (by Sportwhirl, for $35) and Arnel knit (by Loomtogs, for $36), they bloom with checks and flowers, glitter with pearls and gold, or stand out like the moon, all white and stark. Graceful to look at and com fortable to lounge in, the party pajamas fit loosely, serve only as a costume, not (like last year...
...this season's suitcases, wadded and crumpled like hasty lumps of dough, are vacation wardrobes of considerable elegance and style. The seemingly unsalvageable lumps emerge as slight, figure-skimming dresses made of featherweight knits and various jerseys, including wrinkleproof synthetic jerseys with synthetic names (Ban-Lon, Arnel, Orion Cantrece, Creslan, Acrilan and Zefran). They can be stuffed fearlessly, without preservative layers of tissue paper, into any suitcase corner, and the lumps disappear, without pressing, moments after the dress has been put on a hanger...
Static-Free Synthetics. Two new processes to eliminate the static from synthetics so they will not cling to the skin and gather lint will soon be in use. A Celanese Corp. of America process coats cottonlike cellulose around each filament of fiber in its Arnel fabrics. Onyx Oil and Chemical Co. has developed a chemical compound called Aston which can be applied to all synthetics to kill the static. Clothing manufacturers will plug the fabric as "Astonized...
Revamped Fiber. To compete with such fibers as Dacron and Orlon. Celanese Corp. of America announced a new acetate rayon, called Arnel. It holds a crease so well that it can be put into automatic washers and dryers, needs virtually no ironing. Price: about 55? a lb. for staple, v. $1.28 a lb. and up for Dacron and the others...