Facts About Clothes
A SIMPLE method of making artificial silk stockings shower-proof, so that they do not show up rain spots, is that of treating them with sufficient of an aluminium soap to rentier them just impervious to water. This treatment has a further advantage of reducing quite appreciably the tendency of a stocking to ladder. The stockings should first be worked for a few minutes in a slightly' warm solution of alum (i ounce per quart of water). They should then be wrung out without rinsing, shaken, and immersed in a warm soapy liquor. An insoluble aluminium soap is thus formed within the threads of the stockings, so that when rinsed and dried they can be held under running water without becoming wet. The soil texture of the stockings is not affected.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 10
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133Facts About Clothes Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 10
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