Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-164) and index.

This book describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the wardrobe of virtually every American. Discusses the story of the relationship between technology, science and society over the past half a century.

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