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- Penley's Klose Klips Clothes Pins, 1930-1940 - These <em>Klose Klip</em> brand clothespins promised "no tearing, no soiling, no freezing to line." No freezing? Before automatic clothes dryers became common, many housewives hung their wet laundry on a clothesline outdoors -- even in cold weather. Suspended from a metal clip, <em>Klose Klip</em> clothespins assured that clean laundry wouldn't be soiled by contact with any dirt found on a cotton clothesline that hung continually outdoors.
- 1930-1940
- Collections - Artifact
Penley's Klose Klips Clothes Pins, 1930-1940
These Klose Klip brand clothespins promised "no tearing, no soiling, no freezing to line." No freezing? Before automatic clothes dryers became common, many housewives hung their wet laundry on a clothesline outdoors -- even in cold weather. Suspended from a metal clip, Klose Klip clothespins assured that clean laundry wouldn't be soiled by contact with any dirt found on a cotton clothesline that hung continually outdoors.