Word: dacron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...retailers, who had watched nylon work a revolution in the hosiery market, were in the midst of another Du Pont revolution last week. On sale were men's shirts and women's blouses of Dacron, a synthetic which may do the same thing to wool that nylon did to silk. In the next few weeks, men's suits of Dacron will be sold all over the country...
Manhattan's Witty Bros. announced it will make 100% Dacron summer-weight suits to sell for $95 in about 60 stores all over the U.S., including San Francisco's Roos Bros., Boston's Kennedy's, Kansas City's Palace Clothing Co. Suits made from Dacron are lighter and cooler than summer-weight wool, will not wrinkle, stretch or fade; the crease in the trousers can only be removed with a hot iron. Last summer, Witty made experimental suits for 200 test customers. One man accidentally tumbled out of a canoe while wearing his Dacron suit...
...Pont's Delaware plant makes Dacron on a pilot plant scale, can supply Witty with fiber for only 1,600 suits this year. Big-scale deliveries of Dacron must wait until 1953, when Du Pont finishes its new plant at Kinston...
...Frontiers. The Du Pont revolution is still growing. President Greenewalt himself has been testing a new suit, made of Du Pont's newest synthetic fiber, Dacron. It looks and feels like wool, but outwears it, costs only half as much, is washable and mothproof-and is virtually wrinkleproof. Says Greenewalt: "The only way you can get the crease out is with an iron...
...Pont is now completing a new plant at Kingston, N.C. to put Dacron into mass production in 1953. The fiber may well do to wool what nylon did to silk...