Facts About Clothes.
A Eimple 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 a|n aluminium soap t»o< render 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 Elightly warm solution of alum (| ounce per quartj of w'ater). They should then be wrung out without rinsing, shaken, and immersed in a warm soapy liquor.
An insoluble aluminium soap is thus l formed within the threads of the stockings, sb that when rinsed and dried they can be held under running water without becoming wet. The soft texture of the stockings is not affected.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 361, 16 February 1937, Page 2
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133Facts About Clothes. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 361, 16 February 1937, Page 2
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