<PAGE> 1

    As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1, 1995
                                                          Registration No. 33-
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C.  20549
                               -------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                               -------------------


                         ANGELICA CORPORATION
               (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

                MISSOURI                                       43-0905260
     (State or other jurisdiction of                        (I.R.S. Employer
     incorporation or organization)                      Identification Number)

        424 South Woods Mill Road
         Chesterfield, Missouri                                63017-3406
  (Address of principal executive offices)                     (Zip Code)
                               -------------------

                              ANGELICA CORPORATION
                     1994 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS STOCK PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)
                              -------------------


                               T. M. ARMSTRONG
 Senior Vice President-Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
                            Angelica Corporation
                          424 South Woods Mill Road
                     Chesterfield, Missouri  63017-3406
                   (Name and address of agent for service)
  Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (314) 854-3800

                               -------------------


                                    Copy to:
                              ROBERT M. LAROSE, ESQ.
                               Thompson & Mitchell
                              One Mercantile Center
                           St. Louis,  Missouri  63101
                               (314) 231-7676

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
===============================================================================================
                                                  Proposed       Proposed
Title of                                          Maximum        Maximum
Securities                    Amount              Offering       Aggregate      Amount of
to be                         to be               Price Per      Offering       Registra-
Registered                    Registered          Share<F2>       Price<F2>     tion Fee
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                           <C>                 <C>            <C>            <C>
Common Stock,
$1.00 par value<F1>           225,000 shares      $25.50         $5,737,500     $1,979
===============================================================================================

<FN>
<F1> This Registration Statement also covers Rights pursuant to the
     Shareholder Protection Rights Plan; one Right is attached to
     each share of Common Stock and trades with such share.

<F2> Estimated solely for purposes of computing the Registration
     Fee pursuant to the provisions of Rule 457(h), based upon a
     price of $25.50 per share, being the average of the high and
     low prices per share as reported on the New York Stock
     Exchange on May 24, 1995.
</TABLE>


<PAGE> 2
                      ANGELICA CORPORATION
             1994 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS STOCK PLAN

Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.
         -----------------------------------------------

     The following documents filed by Angelica Corporation (the
"Company") with the Securities and Exchange Commission are
incorporated herein by reference:

     (i)    The Company's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, for
            the year ended January 28, 1995.

    (ii)    The description of the Company's Common Stock set forth
            in the Company's registration statement filed under the
            Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (File No. 1-5674),
            including any amendment filed for the purpose of
            updating such description.

   (iii)    The description of the Company's Shareholder Protection
            Rights Plan set forth in the Registration Statement on
            Form 8-A dated August 24, 1988, and any amendment filed
            for the purpose of updating such description.

     All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the 1934 Act, after the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have
been sold or which deregisters all securities remaining unsold,
shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be made a part hereof from the date
of filing of such documents.  Any statement contained herein or in
a document incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be
modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
to the extent that a statement contained in a subsequently filed
document incorporated herein by reference modifies or supersedes
such statement.  Any statement so modified or superseded shall not
be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a
part of the Registration Statement.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
         -----------------------------------------

     As permitted by Section 351.355 of The General and Business
Corporation Law of Missouri, the By-Laws of the Company contain
provisions permitting indemnification of officers, directors and,
under certain circumstances, employees.  The Company has entered
into indemnification agreements with its directors and elected
officers and may enter into such agreements with future directors
and elected officers and with certain other employees and agents
indemnifying them under certain circumstances.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers or
persons controlling the Company pursuant to such provisions, the
Company has been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy
as expressed in such Act and is therefore unenforceable.

Item 8.  Exhibits.
         --------

    The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated
herein by reference:


<PAGE> 3

    4.1  Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, filed
         as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
         for the year ended January 26, 1991, and incorporated
         herein by reference.

    4.2  By-Laws of the Company, as amended, filed as Exhibit 3.2
         to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
         ended January 28, 1995, and incorporated herein by
         reference.

    4.3  Shareholder Protection Rights Plan, filed in the
         Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 1-5674) dated
         August 24, 1988, and incorporated herein by reference.

    4.4  Angelica Corporation 1994 Non-Employee Directors Stock
         Plan, filed as Appendix A to the Company's Proxy Statement
         for the 1995 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, and
         incorporated herein by reference.

    5    Opinion of Thompson & Mitchell as to the legality of the
         securities to be issued.

    23   Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.

    25   Power of Attorney (set forth on signature page hereto).

Item 9.  Undertakings.
         ------------

        (a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

             (1)   To file, during any period in which offers and sales
                   are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
                   registration statement:

                     (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section
                          10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

                    (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
                          events arising after the effective date of the
                          registration statement (or the most recent
                          post-effective amendment thereof), which,
                          individually or in the aggregate, represent a
                          fundamental change in the information set
                          forth in the registration statement; and

                   (iii)  To include any material information with
                          respect to the plan of distribution
                          previously disclosed in the registration
                          statement or any material change to such
                          information in the registration statement.

                   Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
             (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration statement is on
             Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be
             included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
             is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
             pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities
             Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in
             the registration statement.

                                    -2-
<PAGE> 4

             (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability
                   under the Securities Act of 1933, each such
                   post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
                   registration statement relating to the securities
                   offered therein, and the offering of such securities
                   at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                   fide offering thereof.

             (3)   To remove from registration by means of a
                   post-effective amendment any of the securities being
                   registered which remain unsold at the termination of
                   the offering.

     (b)   The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (c)   Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under
the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers
and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in
the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by
the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense
of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in
the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.



                                    -3-
<PAGE> 5
                           SIGNATURES

     The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the
     --------------
Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on
May 23, 1995.

                              ANGELICA CORPORATION


                              By /s/ Lawrence J. Young
                                -------------------------------------------
                                Lawrence J. Young
                                Chairman of the Board and President


          We, the undersigned officers and directors of Angelica
Corporation, hereby severally and individually constitute and
appoint Lawrence J. Young and Theodore M. Armstrong, and each of
them, the true and lawful attorneys and agents of each of us to
execute in the name, place and stead of each of us (individually
and in any capacity stated below) any and all amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8 and all instruments necessary or
advisable in connection therewith and to file the same with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, each of said attorneys and
agents to have the power to act with or without the other and to
have full power and authority to do and perform in the name and on
behalf of each of the undersigned every act whatsoever necessary or
advisable to be done in the premises as fully and to all intents
and purposes as any of the undersigned might or could do in person,
and we hereby ratify and confirm our signatures as they may be
signed by our said attorneys and agents and each of them to any and
all such amendments and instruments.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following
persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

           Signature                       Title                           Date
           ---------                       -----                           ----
<S>                                 <C>                                 <C>
 /s/ Lawrence J. Young              Chairman of the Board,              May 23, 1995
- --------------------------------    President and Director
Lawrence J. Young                   (Principal Executive Officer)

 /s/ Theodore M. Armstrong          Senior Vice President-Finance and   May 23, 1995
- --------------------------------    Administration and Chief Financial
Theodore M. Armstrong               Officer
                                    (Principal Financial Officer)
</TABLE>

                                    -4-
<PAGE> 6


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

           Signature                       Title                           Date
           ---------                       -----                           ----
<S>                                 <C>                                 <C>
 /s/ L. Linden Mann                 Controller                          May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------     (Principal Financial Officer)
L. Linden Mann


 /s/ Earle H. Harbison, Jr.         Director                            May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Earle H. Harbison, Jr.


 /s/ Leslie F. Loewe                 Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Leslie F. Loewe


 /s/ Lee M. Liberman                 Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Lee M. Liberman


 /s/ Martin Sneider                  Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Martin Sneider


 /s/ Elliot H. Stein                 Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Elliot H. Stein


 /s/ William P. Stiritz              Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
William P. Stiritz


 /s/ H. Edwin Trusheim               Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
H. Edwin Trusheim
</TABLE>




                                    -5-
<PAGE> 7

                                   EXHIBIT INDEX
                                   -------------

Exhibit No.                                                               Page
- ----------                                                                ----

   4.1    Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, filed
          as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Annual Report on Form
          10-K for the year ended January 26, 1991, and
          incorporated herein by reference.

   4.2    By-Laws of the Company, as amended, filed as Exhibit 3.2
          to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
          ended January 28, 1995, and incorporated herein by
          reference.

   4.3    Shareholder Protection Rights Plan, filed in the
          Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 1-5674)
          dated August 24, 1988, and incorporated herein by
          reference.

   4.4    Angelica Corporation 1994 Non-Employee Directors Stock
          Plan, filed as Appendix A to the Company's Proxy
          Statement for the 1995 Annual Meeting of Shareholders,
          and incorporated herein by reference.

   5      Opinion of Thompson & Mitchell as to the legality of the
          securities to be issued.

   23     Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.

   25     Power of Attorney (set forth on signature page hereto).

                                    -6-
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1

    As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1, 1995
                                                          Registration No. 33-
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C.  20549
                               -------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                               -------------------

                         ANGELICA CORPORATION
               (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

                MISSOURI                                       43-0905260
     (State or other jurisdiction of                        (I.R.S. Employer
     incorporation or organization)                      Identification Number)

        424 South Woods Mill Road
         Chesterfield, Missouri                                63017-3406
  (Address of principal executive offices)                     (Zip Code)
                               -------------------

                              ANGELICA CORPORATION
                     1994 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS STOCK PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)
                              -------------------

                               T. M. ARMSTRONG
 Senior Vice President-Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
                            Angelica Corporation
                          424 South Woods Mill Road
                     Chesterfield, Missouri  63017-3406
                   (Name and address of agent for service)
  Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (314) 854-3800

                               -------------------

                                    Copy to:
                              ROBERT M. LAROSE, ESQ.
                               Thompson & Mitchell
                              One Mercantile Center
                           St. Louis,  Missouri  63101
                               (314) 231-7676
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
===============================================================================================
                                                  Proposed       Proposed
Title of                                          Maximum        Maximum
Securities                    Amount              Offering       Aggregate      Amount of
to be                         to be               Price Per      Offering       Registra-
Registered                    Registered          Share
Price
tion Fee
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock,
$1.00 par value
225,000 shares      $25.50         $5,737,500     $1,979
===============================================================================================
This Registration Statement also covers Rights pursuant to the
     Shareholder Protection Rights Plan; one Right is attached to
     each share of Common Stock and trades with such share.
Estimated solely for purposes of computing the Registration
     Fee pursuant to the provisions of Rule 457(h), based upon a
     price of $25.50 per share, being the average of the high and
     low prices per share as reported on the New York Stock
     Exchange on May 24, 1995.
2
                      ANGELICA CORPORATION
             1994 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS STOCK PLAN

Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.
         -----------------------------------------------

     The following documents filed by Angelica Corporation (the
"Company") with the Securities and Exchange Commission are
incorporated herein by reference:

     (i)    The Company's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, for
            the year ended January 28, 1995.

    (ii)    The description of the Company's Common Stock set forth
            in the Company's registration statement filed under the
            Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (File No. 1-5674),
            including any amendment filed for the purpose of
            updating such description.

   (iii)    The description of the Company's Shareholder Protection
            Rights Plan set forth in the Registration Statement on
            Form 8-A dated August 24, 1988, and any amendment filed
            for the purpose of updating such description.

     All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the 1934 Act, after the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have
been sold or which deregisters all securities remaining unsold,
shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be made a part hereof from the date
of filing of such documents.  Any statement contained herein or in
a document incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be
modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement
to the extent that a statement contained in a subsequently filed
document incorporated herein by reference modifies or supersedes
such statement.  Any statement so modified or superseded shall not
be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a
part of the Registration Statement.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
         -----------------------------------------

     As permitted by Section 351.355 of The General and Business
Corporation Law of Missouri, the By-Laws of the Company contain
provisions permitting indemnification of officers, directors and,
under certain circumstances, employees.  The Company has entered
into indemnification agreements with its directors and elected
officers and may enter into such agreements with future directors
and elected officers and with certain other employees and agents
indemnifying them under certain circumstances.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers or
persons controlling the Company pursuant to such provisions, the
Company has been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy
as expressed in such Act and is therefore unenforceable.

Item 8.  Exhibits.
         --------

    The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated
herein by reference:
3

    4.1  Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, filed
         as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
         for the year ended January 26, 1991, and incorporated
         herein by reference.

    4.2  By-Laws of the Company, as amended, filed as Exhibit 3.2
         to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
         ended January 28, 1995, and incorporated herein by
         reference.

    4.3  Shareholder Protection Rights Plan, filed in the
         Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 1-5674) dated
         August 24, 1988, and incorporated herein by reference.

    4.4  Angelica Corporation 1994 Non-Employee Directors Stock
         Plan, filed as Appendix A to the Company's Proxy Statement
         for the 1995 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, and
         incorporated herein by reference.

    5    Opinion of Thompson & Mitchell as to the legality of the
         securities to be issued.

    23   Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.

    25   Power of Attorney (set forth on signature page hereto).

Item 9.  Undertakings.
         ------------

        (a)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

             (1)   To file, during any period in which offers and sales
                   are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
                   registration statement:

                     (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section
                          10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

                    (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
                          events arising after the effective date of the
                          registration statement (or the most recent
                          post-effective amendment thereof), which,
                          individually or in the aggregate, represent a
                          fundamental change in the information set
                          forth in the registration statement; and

                   (iii)  To include any material information with
                          respect to the plan of distribution
                          previously disclosed in the registration
                          statement or any material change to such
                          information in the registration statement.

                   Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
             (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration statement is on
             Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be
             included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
             is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
             pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities
             Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in
             the registration statement.

                                    -2-
4

             (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability
                   under the Securities Act of 1933, each such
                   post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
                   registration statement relating to the securities
                   offered therein, and the offering of such securities
                   at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                   fide offering thereof.

             (3)   To remove from registration by means of a
                   post-effective amendment any of the securities being
                   registered which remain unsold at the termination of
                   the offering.

     (b)   The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (c)   Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under
the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers
and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in
the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by
the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense
of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in
the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.

                                    -3-
5
                           SIGNATURES

     The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the
     --------------
Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on
May 23, 1995.

                              ANGELICA CORPORATION

                              By /s/ Lawrence J. Young
                                -------------------------------------------
                                Lawrence J. Young
                                Chairman of the Board and President

          We, the undersigned officers and directors of Angelica
Corporation, hereby severally and individually constitute and
appoint Lawrence J. Young and Theodore M. Armstrong, and each of
them, the true and lawful attorneys and agents of each of us to
execute in the name, place and stead of each of us (individually
and in any capacity stated below) any and all amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8 and all instruments necessary or
advisable in connection therewith and to file the same with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, each of said attorneys and
agents to have the power to act with or without the other and to
have full power and authority to do and perform in the name and on
behalf of each of the undersigned every act whatsoever necessary or
advisable to be done in the premises as fully and to all intents
and purposes as any of the undersigned might or could do in person,
and we hereby ratify and confirm our signatures as they may be
signed by our said attorneys and agents and each of them to any and
all such amendments and instruments.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following
persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.
Signature                       Title                           Date
           ---------                       -----                           ----
/s/ Lawrence J. Young              Chairman of the Board,              May 23, 1995
- --------------------------------    President and Director
Lawrence J. Young                   (Principal Executive Officer)

 /s/ Theodore M. Armstrong          Senior Vice President-Finance and   May 23, 1995
- --------------------------------    Administration and Chief Financial
Theodore M. Armstrong               Officer
                                    (Principal Financial Officer)
-4-
6
Signature                       Title                           Date
           ---------                       -----                           ----
/s/ L. Linden Mann                 Controller                          May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------     (Principal Financial Officer)
L. Linden Mann

 /s/ Earle H. Harbison, Jr.         Director                            May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Earle H. Harbison, Jr.

 /s/ Leslie F. Loewe                 Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Leslie F. Loewe

 /s/ Lee M. Liberman                 Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Lee M. Liberman

 /s/ Martin Sneider                  Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Martin Sneider

 /s/ Elliot H. Stein                 Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
Elliot H. Stein

 /s/ William P. Stiritz              Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
William P. Stiritz

 /s/ H. Edwin Trusheim               Director                           May 23, 1995
- -------------------------------
H. Edwin Trusheim
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7

                                   EXHIBIT INDEX
                                   -------------

Exhibit No.                                                               Page
- ----------                                                                ----

   4.1    Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, filed
          as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Annual Report on Form
          10-K for the year ended January 26, 1991, and
          incorporated herein by reference.

   4.2    By-Laws of the Company, as amended, filed as Exhibit 3.2
          to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
          ended January 28, 1995, and incorporated herein by
          reference.

   4.3    Shareholder Protection Rights Plan, filed in the
          Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 1-5674)
          dated August 24, 1988, and incorporated herein by
          reference.

   4.4    Angelica Corporation 1994 Non-Employee Directors Stock
          Plan, filed as Appendix A to the Company's Proxy
          Statement for the 1995 Annual Meeting of Shareholders,
          and incorporated herein by reference.

   5      Opinion of Thompson & Mitchell as to the legality of the
          securities to be issued.

   23     Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP.

   25     Power of Attorney (set forth on signature page hereto).

                                    -6-