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                                                                    EXHIBIT 3.27


                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                        FIELDCREST CANNON SURE FIT, INC.

     The undersigned, being of the age of eighteen years or more, does hereby
make and acknowledge this Certificate of Incorporation for the purpose of
forming a business corporation under and by virtue of the laws of the State of
Delaware.

                                       I.

     The name of the corporation is Fieldcrest Cannon Sure Fit, Inc.

                                      II.

     The address of the initial registered office of the corporation in the
State of Delaware is 32 Loockerman Square, Suite L-100, City of Dover, Delaware
19904, County of Kent, and the name of the initial registered agent at such
address is the The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc. 

                                      III.

     The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity
for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of
Delaware.

                                      IV.

     The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have
authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares of Common Stock, no par value
per share.

                                       V.

     The name and address of the sole incorporator are Sheri L. Crockett, 2100
First Union Capital Center, 150 Fayetteville Street Mall, Raleigh, North
Carolina 27601.

                                      VI.

     No person who is serving or has served as a director of the corporation
shall be liable to the corporation or to any stockholder for monetary damages
for breach of any fiduciary


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duty of such person as a director by reason of any act or omission occurring on
or after the date this article becomes effective.  Nothing herein shall be 
deemed to limit or eliminate the liability of any person (i) for any breach of
such person's duty of loyalty as a director to the corporation or its
stockholders; (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of the law; (iii) for the unlawful
payment of a dividend by the corporation or the unlawful purchase or redemption
of the corporation's capital stock by the corporation; (iv) for any transaction
from which such person derived an improper personal benefit; or (v) to any
extent that such liability may not be limited or eliminated by virtue of the
provisions of Section 102(b)(7) of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware or any successor statute.

     The undersigned incorporator hereby acknowledges that the foregoing
certificate of incorporation is her act and deed and that the facts stated
therein are true.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned sole incorporator of the corporation
has hereunto set her hand this 6th day of January, 1995.



                                        /s/ SHERI L. CROCKETT
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                                        Sheri L. Crockett, Incorporator