Wash-and-wear

Description

A term coined for advertising clothes and fabrics designed to have a wrinkle-free appearance after washing. The requisites for wash and wear fabrics include the ability to retain their original creases, have minimal shrinkage, and need little or no pressing, even after repeated wear and laundering.

Authority

• Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993

• Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Dictionary of Fiber & Textile Technology (older version called Man-made Fiber and Textile Dictionary, 1965), Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Charlotte NC, 1990

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998