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gotta get me one of dose!

Angelica was a St. Louis company (or had a substantial base here). Wonder if I can find a jacket around here? Hmmmmmm.
 
Angelica

Was a major unifor mfg for many many years.. They no longer make any uniforms and are now in commerical linen rental for major hospitals.. They have plants in most of the larger citys A few years ago they Bought out National Linen Service and Cascade Linen Service in Texas and most of the border states.
 
Servicemen do sometimes work on their backs.

The ridges above one's upper lip and nose may be deisgned for a baby to be able to grasp/extract milk from a nipple, but that cleft in the chin is designed to rest my..............

65% polyester. Stay away from flamers..er...open flames. OMG those men are going to smell ripe at the end of a day. Wtih my body chemistry wearing poly. makes me "STANK"!

Look at those prices! Wouldn't it be grand to go a bit back in time [but not far back enough when men were men but sheep were scared!] with today's salaries and a chunk of cash?
 
Defective circuit-board.

Oh Tim! I once called Sears to come look at my agitator. It was not able to stroke in both directions.

Teh serviceman grabbed it, got it moving and did what it took to get it working. Actually he held it so tight he did some damage. He managed to get the softener dispenser to "heat-weld" onto the shaft.

Yes plumber's crack galore; revolting. Because..YEESH...he was not anything like DAN in Iowa.
 
Try a tool-belt, mister!

~I thought you would want them to come with bulges in all the right places, direct from the factory, lol.

Sadly Tim oh-so-many good ones are trained to put their tools in a box and have no clue otherwise.
 
Gosh,

How on earth did folks survive the polyester days?

The only thing worse was Nytest. Those, thank goodness, quickly melted onto the soleplates of irons...you couldn't wash, bleach or lysol the stink out of the armpits on that hideous fabric.

Nor can you truly clean grease out of polyester blends.

Ick.

I do remember back in the early '60's, my mom would meet the repairmen, who really did wear uniforms, at the door with our 200+ lb. St. Bernard. He had a strong protective sense and no sense of humor. They never bothered her and it's funny how often they were able to fix the problem on the first visit, instead of only after three as our neighbors and friends often complained.

I think the uniforms served both as practical protection as well as giving the workmen a sense of identity. Many had learned highly skilled professions in the military and were far more competent than the numnuts who pass for 'service-people' today.

Anybody remember the smell of poly-blend shirts being ironed?
 
Starring Ivan Sergei, as the Westinghouse repair guy

Sind feines schmattes, aber off to the Shatnes to pick out all of those fischstinkener polyester threads.

Such a punim! (Top Left)He could be on the television.
 
Polyester is far from dead. It's still used in most uniforms, everything from policemen to postal workers. The fabric is usually treated with fire retardants.

You know, the only thing worse than making $36,000 a year to be shot at, is having to wear poly/wool blends while you're being shot at.
 
True,

but not anywhere near as much outside the US. Europe, except for high-tech synthetics pretty much gave up on plastic clothing in the 1970's and never really returned to it.

You'll find polyester blends in the cheaper stores, of course, but basically, we stick with higher quality fibers.

Thank goodness.

Of course, polyester is a catch-all phrase. There are many outstanding high-tech fibers which are 'polyester' yet suffer from none of the horrid negative characteristics of Dacron and its ilk.

Yech.
 

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