On Thursday 05 April 2007 9:45 am, Sonja (LS-LAMP) wrote: > > Does anyone know when elastic was first used in clothing and how? > > I believe Thomas Hancock developed elastic for gloves in the early 1800s > and did a separate patent for the machine to make the elastic in the > 1830s. I found this link: http://www.bouncing-balls.com/index2.htm
That link gave me a 404 error. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You've got to have the proper amount of disrespect for what you do." -- George Mabry _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
