She notes that in pictures of Thomson in the playoffs, there is some odd bunching of the fabric around the number 3 on the back. (He wore number 23 for the Giants.) Rousseau says that the severe process used to dry-clean jerseys at the time often caused odd distortions at the point where the numbers met the uniforms.
But eventually, each atom encounters a plate at a temperature lower than its boiling point, at which point it sticks to the plate, just as water freezes when poured on to dry-ice.