Cold-Climate Clothing.
Revolutionary' developments in cold-weather clothing, begun during the war and confirmed during the recent American Antarctic expedition, were referred to by Dr. Paul Siple, probably the world’s greatest authority on the subject, in a Press conference recently. He instanced the use of rubber sox. ‘Everybody’s reaction when these are mentioned is to remark how they would draw the feet,” he said. “Instead, experiments have shown that they actually draw the feet 80 per cent, less than other footwear and eliminate the tedious drying necessary with woollen sox.” Greater protection, less weight and more freedom of movement were the object of clothing design, which the war had changed from a fad to a science.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 8, 21 March 1947, Page 6
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115Cold-Climate Clothing. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 8, 21 March 1947, Page 6
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