Modern Fabric Improvements

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30576, 20 October 1964, Page 2

Modern Fabric Improvements

“The sky’s the limit to development in terylene and bri-nylon the test-tube babies of fabric manufacture,” said Mrs Pam Adams, a Melbourne fashion co-ordinator, in Christchurch yesterday. “Improvements to the older fabrics and new developments are going on all the time to these test-tube babies, which can rightly be called the ‘wonder fibres’ of modern times,” she said. Mrs Adams is in New Zealand wtth a collection of fashion garments from Fibremakers (Aust.) to show what has been introduced on the Australian market and will be eventually manufactured in New Zealand. The advantages of terylene and bri-nylon, used alone or blended with wool or linen are their lightness in weight, easy care and durability. Added to these assets is a

I special adaptability to pleatl ing, she said. In her collection Mrs s Adams has brought sports- ' wear, leisure wear, hostess i and lounge wear, cocktail , frocks, suits and frocks for the races and formal evening i gowns. Designed for modern

I living in spring, summer, autumn and winter, the manmade fabrics are produced in suitable weights for the season. They have a special appeal to women who appreciate being able to wash, drip- ! dry overnight and put on a garment next day without any delay. “We do not recommend washing a terylene and wool suit with padding in the shoulders or stiffening in the lapels, for instance. But almost everything from evening gowns to leisure wear can be home laundered without any ironing,” she said. Mrs Adams has been touring New Zealand for three weeks and has not once needed to use an iron on her own clothes. She has brought about 25 garments of her own and has not had to pay any excess baggage on aircraft Many of her frocks weigh only a few ounces. Included in her own wardrobe are terylene and wool knit suits, which have the softness, absorption and comfort of pure wool with extra shape retention and added strength of terylene fibre. A salmon pink linenlook jacket and white

pleated skirt comes out of hetr suitcase looking as if it had come straight from a manufacturer’s showroom. Her turquoise nylon and durex cocktail suit, which moulds to the figure and always returns to its original lane, could slip off the hangar and lie on the floor of the wardrobe all afternoon yet not need the touch of an iron before she puts it on at 5 o’clock. A shower coat, which she keeps in her handbag shows no tell-tale creases when she puts it on in a sudden downpour. Her tour collection, which will be shown at Hay’s this week, will be presented in two sections. One is entirely of specially-designed garments; the other is made up of top designs selected from the ranges of leading Australian manufacturers. Mrs Adams trained as a designer in England but decided to go into fashion promotion. For a time she worked for a leading Scottish firm, in charge of a mail order service to customers living overseas. She went to live in Australia about seven years ago.