Those who know about the indomitable UK comedian Tommy Cooper (1921 – 1984) will also know about his act’s trademark – the red fez he (nearly) always wore on his head. Or do they? Was it really a fez? This question has recently been examined in an article for the latest volume of the journal […]
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Trouser (pants) creases – a metrological examination
If you’re one those people who wonders about accurate trouser-crease measurement in woolen trousers (pants), you should perhaps turn to the Textile Research Journal, March 1966 36: pp. 264-272, where R.C. Landwehr (of the Western Regional Research Lab, Albany, California) presented an apparatus and procedures to reliably measure wool creases. The ratio of maximum crease […]