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Those wash-and-wear shirts were a hot property Times Record News
If I had weeks of occasion and unlimited use of long distance telephone calls I could be much more accurate in writing this column about the use of synthetics such as nylon and rayon for men’s smarten up shirts.
All I have is a fading memory of those first lightweight, no-iron, washable, short-sleeved shirts that looked so horrific right off the shelf in stores such as Sears, Penney’s and Montgomery Ward.
But as soon as you put them on back in the 1950s and walked surface on a warm day, sweat poured off your body as if you were wearing a plastic bag.
No free-moving air passed through that synthetic consequential because that rayon or nylon was a plastic bag.
A boy or man might look good wearing those bright shirts made from material created from chemicals, but the wearer was poor and begging to get back into cotton or even wool clothing made with natural fibers.
Soon came blends of cotton and synthetic, but even 50-50 wasn’t well-mannered enough. And if your mother’s or wife’s electric iron was too hot, the shirts would actually melt.
Clothing materials have come a elongated way over the last 50 years, and even when advertised as “no iron” shirts, they still need a bit of pressing with a warm iron after effective through a washing machine and dryer.
Let’s face it, people: There is nothing more comfortable in summer or winter than a 100 percent cotton shirt or put together of jeans such as Wranglers!
And researchers with Cotton Inc. have come a long way in wash-and-wear cotton that looks good and doesn’t show wrinkles. But sometimes they are expensive. I read a story last week by an editor of a Farm Bureau publication who was shopping for a casual dress shirt and discovered the first one he looked at was priced at 90 bucks and it was made in India.