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What was the immediate cause of Richard Drew's work with cellophane?

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Answer is: his desire to make his tape applicable in moist settings.
Richard Drew (1899 – 1980) was an American inventor who invented masking tape and cellophane tape.Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose, low permeability to air, bacteria.
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