Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc. is the biggest U.S. maker of brand-name shirts (Arrow), but its largest single source of profit is not from shirts at all. It is from “Sanforizing,” a process for ...

Cloth shrinks because its fibres have been stretched taut during weaving and finishing, and under the gentle massage of washing the fibres swell, relax and partially return to their original shorter ...