Word: cluett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Sanford L. Cluett, 93, textile man, whose Sanforizing process (coined from his first name) thrust the world into the Non-Shrink Age; in Palm Beach, Fla. As a vice president of the family-founded Cluett, Peabody & Co. (Arrow shirts), Cluett in 1928 determined to find a way of counteracting the pull exerted by mill machines during weaving, which stretches fibers only to have them shrink back again after washing; his process which contracts and preshrinks the cloth, has been lauded as the most significant textile discovery since the advent of fast dyes...
Most of the manufacturers are busy buying up established chains to get the outlets they need to raise sales. Hart Schaffner & Marx now has 120, Cluett, Peabody 48. Second-place Botany Industries (1964 sales: $134 million) operates 78 stores, will soon take over more. Botany President Michael Daroff is particularly interested in the 18-to 28-year-olds, who not only have money but can set styles. Botany is equipping each of its stores with a Mustang Shop, where salesmen are young, Cokes are served, and youthful customers are urged to chat, browse and buy the go-go clothes aimed...
...longer with a pair of white flannels, a blue blazer, and a few white tennis shirts. Nearly everyone now owns at least one sports jacket and usually several. Twice as many sports shirts are made today as business shirts, and Cluett Peabody & Co. has just closed down its necktie division, as have all other major shirt companies...
...cooperation with Cluett Peabody (Arrow shirts), West Virginia Pulp & Paper has developed a superstrong San forized bag material called Clupak that is scoring big gains in packaging of chem icals and cement...