A popular two-tiered design, which resembles a skirt and jacket, came to be because the pleater's machine could not handle longer material.

Using gears and specialty pleater needles, the fabric is forced through the gears and onto the threaded needles.

Al-Muqanna' was an ethnic Persian from Merv named Hashim ibn Hakim, originally a clothes pleater.

When Nathan Jervey, his steam pleater, suffered a pinched nerve, Mr. Cohen had him operated on by a doctor brother-in-law and gave him three months off.

He secured his father's blessing for a theatrical career, and his father not only approved but also obtained from P. T. Barnum an introduction to William Pleater Davidge.

There they lodge, and it seems as if the lady in the sealskin jacket must find life tolerable, passing the time of day with the accordion pleater, or the man who covers buttons; life which is so fantastic cannot be altogether tragic.