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  • We were the stars of the annual college clinic for out-of-town buyers, all twenty of us outfitted in the same red orlon double-knit tube with a hood that rolled down to a giant turtleneck.

    Lynn Sherr: The Perfect Mademoiselle, But For Two Little Obstacles 2008

  • White or light nylons and orlons—orlon has not been made since 1990, but some is still in use—will pick up any faint hint of color in the wash water, even the all-but-invisible taint of pastels, and may become dingy or gray.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • White or light nylons and orlons—orlon has not been made since 1990, but some is still in use—will pick up any faint hint of color in the wash water, even the all-but-invisible taint of pastels, and may become dingy or gray.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • We in our plaid dresses and orlon sweaters and velveteen shoes and they in their suit coats with the vestigial collars turned up and the lapels closed might have been marooned survivors of some lost pleasure craft.

    senorcoconut Diary Entry senorcoconut 2005

  • But, as it is risky, it should be done only infrequently and cautiously, only with very light colors and off-whites that have already been washed several times, and never in loads including nylon or orlon.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • But, as it is risky, it should be done only infrequently and cautiously, only with very light colors and off-whites that have already been washed several times, and never in loads including nylon or orlon.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • But, as it is risky, it should be done only infrequently and cautiously, only with very light colors and off-whites that have already been washed several times, and never in loads including nylon or orlon.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • But, as it is risky, it should be done only infrequently and cautiously, only with very light colors and off-whites that have already been washed several times, and never in loads including nylon or orlon.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • White or light nylons and orlons—orlon has not been made since 1990, but some is still in use—will pick up any faint hint of color in the wash water, even the all-but-invisible taint of pastels, and may become dingy or gray.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • White or light nylons and orlons—orlon has not been made since 1990, but some is still in use—will pick up any faint hint of color in the wash water, even the all-but-invisible taint of pastels, and may become dingy or gray.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

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