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* In the 1980s Creator/DCComics ''Literature/DocSavage'' comic book, VitriolicBestBuds Ham and Monk continue their bickering from the 1930s. One of the things clothes horse Ham attacks Monk for is Monk's appalling fashion sense, including his love of synthetic fibers. Monk's poor fashion choices come back to bite him when he creates a gas to dissolve polymers, forgetting that he is wearing a polyester suit. [[TheNudifier The gas dissolves his suit]], leaving him standing in his GoofyPrintUnderwear. Ham, who is dressed in all-natural fibers, is immune[[labelnote:*]][[ArtisticLicenseChemistry Realistically]], something that dissolves "polymers" should destroy basically any fabric (cotton, for instance, is made of cellulose), not to mention the collagen in '''human skin'''.[[/labelnote]] and finds the whole thing hilarious.
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* In the 1980s Creator/DCComics ''Literature/DocSavage'' comic book, VitriolicBestBuds Ham and Monk continue their bickering from the 1930s. One of the things clothes horse Ham attacks Monk for is Monk's appalling fashion sense, including his love of synthetic fibers. Monk's poor fashion choices come back to bite him when he creates a gas to dissolve polymers, forgetting that he is wearing a polyester suit. [[TheNudifier The gas dissolves his suit]], leaving him standing in his GoofyPrintUnderwear. Ham, who is dressed in all-natural fibers, is immune[[labelnote:*]][[ArtisticLicenseChemistry immune[[labelnote]]:*[[ArtisticLicenseChemistry Realistically]], something that dissolves "polymers" should destroy basically any fabric (cotton, for instance, is made of cellulose), not to mention the collagen in '''human skin'''.[[/labelnote]] and finds the whole thing hilarious.
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* In his book ''Mind Over Matters'', Creator/MikeNelson describes [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim his terrible sense of style in the early eighties]] by referring to his clothing choices as "cheap, tight, and made entirely from petroleum-based fibers".
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* In his book ''Mind Over Matters'', Creator/MikeNelson describes [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim his terrible sense of style in the early eighties]] by referring to his clothing choices as "cheap, tight, and made entirely from petroleum-based fibers".
* On ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', Chummy takes to wearing Crimplene, which her GrandDame mother heartily disapproves of. She even gets married in it, and [[VirginInAWhiteDress not white, either]].
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* On ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', Chummy takes to wearing Crimplene, which her GrandDame mother heartily disapproves of. She even gets married in it, and [[VirginInAWhiteDress not white, either]].
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* In ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'', it's never directly stated but John Candy's traveling salesman character's off-the-rack polyester suit is meant to match his overbearing and occasionally aggravating personality.
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* In ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'', it's never directly stated but John Candy's traveling salesman character's Del Griffith's off-the-rack polyester suit is meant to match his overbearing and occasionally aggravating personality.
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The Fake Fabric Fashion Faux Pas trope was at its peak during TheEighties when there was a backlash against the garish fashions and polyester-heavy apparel that had been common during TheSeventies. Clothes made of artificial fabric were still prevalent during the '80s but [[AcceptableTargets they and the people wearing them]] came to be associated with fashion-blindness, lack of aesthetic taste, and [[{{StepfordSuburbia}} plastic suburban life]]. However, it is now becoming a DeadHorseTrope due to changing attitudes about fashion over the last 30 years. In many professional workplaces, [[https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-polyester-bounced-back/?utm_source=pocket-newtab clothing has become a lot more casual and less formal.]] (If there is some backlash about wearing synthetic fibers, it will more likely be due to environmental concerns.) Also, this trope depended upon the perceived existence of [[SnobsVersusSlobs friction]] within the middle-class between [[{{Suburbia}} suburbanites who wore polyester clothes]] and the [[{{Yuppie}} Yuppies]] and [[BourgeoisBohemian Bourgeois Bohemians]] who only wore natural fabrics. The middle-class, on the whole, has shrunk so much since the 1980s that these intra-class distinctions have nearly disappeared.
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The Fake Fabric Fashion Faux Pas trope was at its peak during TheEighties when there was a backlash against the garish fashions and polyester-heavy apparel that had been common during TheSeventies. Clothes made of artificial fabric were still prevalent during the '80s but [[AcceptableTargets they and the people wearing them]] them came to be associated with fashion-blindness, lack of aesthetic taste, and [[{{StepfordSuburbia}} [[StepfordSuburbia plastic suburban life]]. However, it is now becoming a DeadHorseTrope due to changing attitudes about fashion over the last 30 years. In many professional workplaces, [[https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-polyester-bounced-back/?utm_source=pocket-newtab clothing has become a lot more casual and less formal.]] (If there is some backlash about wearing synthetic fibers, it will more likely be due to environmental concerns.) Also, this trope depended upon the perceived existence of [[SnobsVersusSlobs friction]] within the middle-class between [[{{Suburbia}} suburbanites who wore polyester clothes]] and the [[{{Yuppie}} Yuppies]] and [[BourgeoisBohemian Bourgeois Bohemians]] who only wore natural fabrics. The middle-class, on the whole, has shrunk so much since the 1980s that these intra-class distinctions have nearly disappeared.
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-->-- ''Steve Lohr'', "Beyond Leisure Suits: New Life for Polyester", ''New York Times'', March 18, 1991
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-->-- ''Steve Lohr'', '''Steve Lohr''', "Beyond Leisure Suits: New Life for Polyester", ''New York Times'', March 18, 1991
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-->-- Steve Lohr, "Beyond Leisure Suits: New Life for Polyester", ''New York Times'', March 18, 1991
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-->-- Steve Lohr, ''Steve Lohr'', "Beyond Leisure Suits: New Life for Polyester", ''New York Times'', March 18, 1991
