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How Collars Wear Out and Laundry Effects
The Mellon Institute study for the Laundry Owners National Association finds collars lose 43 to 50 percent of life to wear or laundering. Drying on a clothesline and air exposure greatly weaken fabrics, with a handkerchief showing about 0.25 percent loss per drying after eighteen cycles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Pittsburg
Loundary-Owners National Association
H. G. Elledge
Mellon Institute
United States Bureau of Standards
Washington
Pittsburg Sun
Elledge
Howe
Anis
Literary Digest