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                         AMENDMENT
                            TO
                    ANGELICA CORPORATION
                     SUPPLEMENTAL PLAN



The Angelica Corporation Supplemental Plan (the "Plan") hereby is
amended, effective as of August 1, 1996 in the following
particulars.

1.   Section 1(f) of the Plan is amended to read as follows:

     "(f) The word `compensation' means all remuneration for
          personal services paid a Participant by the
          Company during a Plan Year, including
          discretionary or incentive bonus or other extra
          compensation and all employee contributions under
          the Angelica Corporation Retirement Savings Plan,
          the Angelica Corporation Deferred Compensation
          Option Plan for Directors and the Angelica
          Corporation Deferred Compensation Option Plan for
          Selected Management Employees, whether or not such
          contributions constituted taxable income to the
          Participant, but excluding any matching
          contributions in cash and/or Company stock made by
          the Company on behalf of the Participant under an
          incentive, stock or nonqualified deferred
          compensation plan maintained by the Company, any
          contractual bonus committed in connection with the
          acquisition of any business by the Company, any
          costs of this plan, any amount contributed by the
          Company for the benefit of such Participant to any
          pension or profit sharing plan (including the
          Federal Social Security Program), any amount paid
          by the Company on behalf of such Participant for
          life, accident, health or medical insurance or for
          any other so-called `fringe benefits,' or any
          reimbursement (directly or indirectly) of
          expenses, or any expense paid on behalf of such
          Participant."

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this amendment to be
executed by its duly authorized officer this 30th day of
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      July          , 1996.
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                        ANGELICA CORPORATION


                        By      /s/ L. J. Young
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                             Chairman of the Board,
                             President and Chief Executive Officer