Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Paper Clothing. [ARTICLE]

Paper Clothing.

The use of paper for clothing had considerable vogue in Europe ten or a dOzen years ago. At that time paper waisconts, paper blankets, paper rugs and the like were manufactured and used on a large scale in England and Germany at least, and some doctors praised the invention emphatically. People found the clothing warm, and comfortably light. But talk arose of the lack of ventilation in paper clothes and consequent uuhealthfulness, and pftpcrgoodsgradually disappeared from .the market.