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.


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