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Ingrid Johnson, a professor of textile development and marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology, says today's synthetic fibers are smaller and softer than the polyester of yesteryear.
Sure, we already knew of bands like The Ramones and The Sex Pistols, but we never thought they would form the soundtrack to our fight against the polyester dancers.
There is a danger the polyester torchbearer uniform will make the individuals look like they are part of a government healthy-living initiative rather than amazing people that have been chosen for the once-in-a-lifetime experience of being an Olympic torchbearer.
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Within a few months, Mr. Grahame-Smith completely restructured and rewrote the screenplay, injecting it with campy humor that plays up the film's absurd premise: Barnabas Collins, a vampire played by Mr. Depp, emerges from a coffin after 200 years to find himself in the polyester, lava-lamp world of 1972.
"Only 25% of the breathable polyester and cotton mix touches your skin, " he explains.
Most pros now use at least some of the newer polyester-like monofilament string often called "polyester" or "poly" for at least some of their strings.
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The old polyester was infamous for its sheen.
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It works like this: thread by thread technicians apply the synthetic, polyester-based extensions to each tiny lash (up to 120 an eye) leaving clients the look of full eye-make up.
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The court heard four purple polyester fibres had been found in the Land Rover which bore a "microscopic resemblance" to April's coat.
From the huddled masses lining up outside theaters months before a movie opening, to the convention centers filled with adults in polyester jump suits, nothing inspires the fervent fandom of these, the galaxy's greatest space epics.
As the work came in, Herman pushed the fashion envelope, introducing polyester blends to McDonald's, knitwear to FedEx and cuffless shirts to the casinos of Las Vegas.
So unlike the traditional bed nets that were on the market--polyester-based and would fall apart after three or four months, had to be dipped--this would enable people to buy a bed net that would last for five years, never have to dip it in insecticide and would actually kill the bugs on contact.
"A polyester reinforcement at the core with probably a polythene layer around that, " Garvey said.
Cotton clothing also requires more energy to maintain than polyester, since the synthetic fabric can be washed at a lower temperature, can hang to dry and doesn't need ironing.
The flat devices are integrated with a polyester backing familiar from stick-on tattoos.
Ambani then made the next logical step: into manufacturing polyester fiber.
Also helping is a work force reduction, a debt paydown and the sale last year of its old Invista polyester and nylon division to Koch Industries.
Children need to be shielded from inaccuracies emblazoned on casual attire, because little kids always believe what adults tell them, even if the information is communicated via a cotton-polyester mix.
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In the 1980s, for example, he built a polyester plant with an annual capacity of 40, 000 tons at a time when that was equivalent to India's entire annual consumption.
Sinivasan, president of the Texmaco group, an Indonesian textile and machinery manufacturer, his company will be one of the world's top producers of high-quality polyester.
The mostly male gamblers, however, wear tacky windbreakers, polyester pants and golf shirts.
He was a senior on the college football team when he developed a prototype for a polyester-Lycra-blend T-shirt to keep him and his teammates dry.
It consists of a mesh of polypropylene (the stuff used to make Astroturf) sandwiched between layers of nonwoven polyester.
It even made jerseys for nine football teams competing in the World Cup when it was held in South Africa - using polyester recycled from plastic bottles.
And now to a corner of Brooklyn, 30 years ago, when the movie Saturday Night Fever made disco mainstream, and John Travolta made polyester a fashion statement.
The dining-room table was set for two: placemats, plates, polyester napkins blooming from industrial-strength wineglasses.
"The new generation, my children's generation, do not think anything about polyester, " she says.
The plastination process involves replacing the natural body fluids with synthetic materials such as silicone rubber, epoxy resin or polyester.
The typical surfboard is a slab of petroleum-spawned polyurethane slathered in layers of toxic polyester resin.
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