Peter Storm (clothing)
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Peter Storm is an outdoor clothing brand developed in the United Kingdom. It was originally created in 1954 by former Royal Marine Noel Bibby as a company supplying waterproof nylon rainwear.
Vintage Peter Storm cagoule label showing garment fabric as polyurethane-coated nylon (the brown staining is from aged glue used to treat the sewing needle-holes that penetrate the PU coating in an effort to restore the fabric's water-repellent properties)
Nylon
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Nylon is a family of synthetic polymers characterized by amide linkages, typically connecting aliphatic or semi-aromatic groups.
Peter Storm (clothing)
…Vintage Peter Storm cagoule label showing garment fabric as polyurethane-coated nylon (the brown staining is from aged glue used to treat the sewing needle-holes that penetrate the PU coating in an effort to restore the fabric's…
Wallace Carothers
Nylon stockings being inspected in Malmö, Sweden, in 1954
Close-up photograph of the knitted nylon fabric used in stockings
These worn out nylon stockings will be reprocessed and made into parachutes for army fliers c. 1942