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By Doris Daugherty
Bonded Fabrics Everything's coming up “007" these days as a result of the fabulous popularity of Ian Fleming’s fictional hero James Bond, the superspy. So it may come as a shock to hear of something "bonded" that has utterly nothing to do with this double-naught agent. This something is the new bonded fabric now coming on the market. A bonded fabric says Miss Barbara Wain, cloth ing specialist at Virginia Teel* is one made of two separate materials “bonded" ^together*. Tie two fahxiioB aie- jeiwed bjij tfrF adhesive or urethane foam. Either side of the fabric may be used. There is a trend, she says, toward reversible bonded fabrics, but many bonded goods are not reversible. Bonding is different from laminating. Laminating uses foam as a backing and does not incorporate another fabric. So, laminated fabrics are not reversible. Important to the consumer is the increasing availability of this fabric on the market in both ready-to-wear and fabric lengths. As a wise buyer, you should know some of the properties of bonded fabric. Bonding re-emphasizes or adds to the properties of a fabric. Most bonded fabrics are made by . joining the face fabric (the fabric on the outside) to a tricot knit. This knit takes on and enhances the properties of the fabric to
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