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I recently purchased a Penney's Travel-Cool summer suit from the 1950s, and I'm not sure how to care for it.
It's clearly made of some manmade fiber, but all I could find on the topic was the ad below (which is from 1953). I think it likely that my suit is one of the nylon ones, not rayon (would it were otherwise), and it's gotten a bit wrinkled.
So how do I get a nylon suit pressed? Dare I trust it to a dry cleaning establishment? I'm okay with an iron on a shirt, but I'm not sure I have the ironing chops to tackle this suit.
P.S. I'm sure the idea of a nylon suit is repellent to most denizens of the lounge -- as, in the abstract, it is to me -- but it's actually a pretty sharp suit, as you can sort of see in the blurry photo below.
It's clearly made of some manmade fiber, but all I could find on the topic was the ad below (which is from 1953). I think it likely that my suit is one of the nylon ones, not rayon (would it were otherwise), and it's gotten a bit wrinkled.
So how do I get a nylon suit pressed? Dare I trust it to a dry cleaning establishment? I'm okay with an iron on a shirt, but I'm not sure I have the ironing chops to tackle this suit.
P.S. I'm sure the idea of a nylon suit is repellent to most denizens of the lounge -- as, in the abstract, it is to me -- but it's actually a pretty sharp suit, as you can sort of see in the blurry photo below.
