AIR-SHOT YARN
NEW LINENS FROM PARIS New lines, elected in Paris by fashionable vote for spring and summer uses, are eye-deceiving fabrics. Some of them look like alpacas. Others have the appearance of chiffons. And several null the wool over the eyes by resembling serge, hopsacking and tweed. Soft chiffon linens, printed in floral patterns, are among the new evening dress materials. Suiting fabrics include the "alpaca” linens in which crisp and shiny rayon yarns are mixed to give the feel and lustre of real alpaca. And coat materials include those vzhlch fall into the “wool” categorylinen tweeds that are striped, checked and plaideJ, serge-like suitings and sports weaves.
Among the more sensational of the new linens are those woven of air-shot yarns. Air is blown into the yarn on the soap bubble principle and swells it up to make it soft and fluffy. Air-con-ditioned in this way, the yarn makes up into sparse, lightweight fabric that is used for lining beach wraps, since fluffed-up yarn is very absorbent.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20784, 20 July 1937, Page 10
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169AIR-SHOT YARN Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20784, 20 July 1937, Page 10
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