Nylon : the manmade fashion revolution : a celebration of design from art silk to nylon and thinking fibres
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Nylon : the manmade fashion revolution : a celebration of design from art silk to nylon and thinking fibres
Bloomsbury, 1999
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The story of synthetics in fashion, beginning with Courtauld's "ArtSilk" and taking in DuPont's invention of nylon in the late thirties and the advent of rayon, crimplene and lycra. The part played by fashion houses is discussed, along with the rise of the Japanese couturiers.
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