Travel Channel Chemistry

The dry cleaning bills must have been
a nightmare.
Source: Travel Channel

Somehow, I missed one of the recent Mysteries at the Museum episodes in last month's holiday hullabaloo. Did you catch it?

Featuring Jennifer Landry, Director of the Chemical Heritage Foundation museum in Philadelphia, the piece profiles young W.H. Perkin as he isolates and later conquers fashion with his revolutionary synthetic dye, mauveine.

I'm grateful to have more chemistry-themed shows appear on TV, but I do have one tiny quibble: do you suppose a dye chemist would have such crisp white sleeves?

Check it out, and let me know what you think.