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CHAPTER XXVI. 



WEARING APPAREL.* 



Wearing apparel. Observations on water-proof wearing apparel. Coats and capes. Ponchos. 

 Cape and hood. Leggins. Sleeves. Overalls. Cartmen's frocks. Storm collar and cape. 

 Firemen's capes. Fording dresses. Full fording dresses. Baptizing dresses. Caps. Storm 

 caps. Firemen's caps. Neck stocks. Aprons. Nurses' aprons. Washer-women's aprons. 

 Brick-maker's aprons. Mechanics' aprons. Children's aprons. Dissecting aprons. Impervious 

 gloves and mittens. Bathing and flesh gloves and mittens. Dissecting gloves. Boxing gloves. 

 Pervious gloves and mittens. Shoes. Pervious overshoes. Congress shoes and gaiters. 

 Buffalo shoes. Ladies' boots and gaiters. Men's boots and gaiters. Sporting boots. Jack 

 boots. Moccassins. Invalids' shoes. Hotel and house slippers. Insoles. Shoe soles. Life- 

 preserving apparel. Firemen's caps. 



In consequence of the recent invention of the perforated fabrics 

 and their contemplated appHcation to many kinds of wearing 

 apparel, it is thought necessary to notice briefly some of the dif- 

 ferent articles of wearing apparel, under the separate heads of 

 pervious and impervious articles, because the same articles, (al- 

 though worn in the same way,) are in some cases worn for dif- 

 ferent purposes, and are often made of different fabrics. 



It is obvious that the napped goods are best adapted to cold 

 climates, and the perforated and porous fabrics only are suitable 

 for pervious wearing apparel. Plated fabrics of cotton, linen, 

 and woolen, as well as the fibrous fabrics, vellum, tissue, and felt, 

 either plain, napped, or embossed, and also drapery, are used 

 respectively as materials for water-proof wearing apparel, accord- 

 ing to the strength required for the garment, the climate in 

 which it is worn, or the fancy of the wearer. In the following 

 chapter, the various articles are described as made of the different 

 fabrics, in accordance with past experience, and the best judg- 

 ment that can now be formed of the adaptation of these fabrics. 



* A license for wearing apparel had been disposed of to the Union India Rubber Company for 

 the United States, and the business is carried on extensively by them, both at Naugatuck, Conn., 

 and at Ilarlem, N. Y. 



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