Exhibit 24.2

                                 CERTIFICATE
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         I, Steven L. Frey, hereby certify that I am Secretary of Angelica
Corporation, a Missouri company, with its principal office in the County of
St. Louis, State of Missouri, and as such in charge of its corporate
records, including minutes of meetings of its shareholders and Board of
Directors.

         I further certify that the Board of Directors of the Company
adopted the following resolutions under date of March 26, 2002, which
resolutions have not since been amended or rescinded and are in full force
and effect at the date hereof:

                  "FURTHER RESOLVED, That Don W. Hubble, T. M. Armstrong and
         James W. Shaffer, or any of them, are hereby authorized to do all
         acts and things and to execute any and all instruments on behalf of
         the Company, including the execution of the Company's Annual Report
         on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 26, 2002, or any
         amendment thereto, relating to compliance with the reporting
         requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which said
         attorneys, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable to
         enable the Company to comply with the Securities Exchange Act of
         1934, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities
         and Exchange Commission in respect thereof;

                  FURTHER RESOLVED, That this Board of Directors does
         approve the execution by the directors and officers of the Company
         or any of them, of a Power of Attorney in favor of Don W. Hubble,
         T. M. Armstrong and James W. Shaffer, or any of them (with power of
         substitution in each), empowering such attorneys, or any of them,
         to do all acts and things and to execute any and all instruments on
         behalf of such directors and officers, including the execution of
         the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
         January 26, 2002 and all amendments thereto, which such attorneys,
         or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable to enable the
         Company to comply with the reporting requirements of the Securities
         and Exchange Commission in respect thereof."

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of the said corporation this 8th day of April, 2002.

                                        /s/ Steven L. Frey
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                                                      Secretary
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