Experimental Shirt
Maker and role
DuPont Co. (E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.) (estab. 1802, closed 2017), Maker
Production date
1944-1945?
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Nylon
Measurements
32 1/2 x 18" (82.6 x 45.7cm)
Description
"This is one of the first three shirts made of nylon, early in the development of nylon at the Experimental Station of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The Central Research Department wove fabric on an experimental loom (the first woven fabric from nylon) and had a dress maker assemble the shirts for test wear; C. H. Creenewalt wore one and I another, do not recall who had the third one - Gordon D. Patterson Sr."
Collection
Object number
85.27
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