![]() ![]() At one point she relates a humiliating breakup, presenting the worst part being that she was forced to wear "polyester pants". Sonny with a Chance: A recurring gag throughout the seasons is how Tawni Hart believes this, usually using it as a dig against Sonny's clothes and fashion choices.In "Slater's Friend" when fantasizing about what her punishment for her "role" in his pet lizard, Artie's, death, she believed wearing a polyester outfit (or getting "curtains") was comparable to "frying" (in a giant frying pan), being "put on ice" (via a large ice cube) and sent to "solitary confinement" (playing the Solitaire card game). Saved by the Bell: Lisa Turtle considers polyester to be absolutely beneath her.This trope is often used as a Wardrobe Flaw of Characterization and is associated with the Casanova Wannabe, the Disco Dan, the Lounge Lizard, and characters whose fashion sense is Two Decades Behind. Instances of people "ironically wearing" tacky polyester clothes represent a more recent off-shoot of this trope.Ĭompare with Impossibly Tacky Clothes, I Was Quite a Fashion Victim, and Outdated Outfit. ![]() The middle-class, on the whole, has shrunk so much since the 1980s that these intra-class distinctions have nearly disappeared. (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 friction within the middle-class between suburbanites who wore polyester clothes and the Yuppies and Bourgeois Bohemians who only wore natural fabrics. In many professional workplaces, clothing has become a lot more casual and less formal. However, it is now becoming a Dead Horse Trope due to changing attitudes about fashion over the last 30 years. Clothes made of artificial fabric were still prevalent during the '80s but they and the people wearing them came to be associated with fashion-blindness, lack of aesthetic taste, and plastic suburban life. The Fake Fabric Fashion Faux Pas trope was at its peak during The '80s when there was a backlash against the garish fashions and polyester-heavy apparel that had been common during The '70s. The clothing doesn't even have to be something garish and inherently tacky like a leisure suit or disco outfit since even a sedate-patterned or subdued-colored suit, blazer, sport coat, shirt, pants, dress, blouse, skirt, or sweater that's polyester (or polyester-blended) can be enough to make the character a target of ridicule and scorn (especially from someone who's a Fashionista or The Dandy). This trope is also invoked whenever there are jokes about friendships or relationships ending when the other person gets caught wearing or possessing clothes made out of artificial material. For example, putting a character in a polyester suit is often a shorthand way to depict him as an obnoxious boor or a shifty salesman. The Fake Fabric Fashion Faux Pas trope is not so much about clothes made out of synthetic material as it is about the people who wear them-and the message conveyed is often not good. Steve Lohr, "Beyond Leisure Suits: New Life for Polyester", New York Times, March 18, 1991 ![]()
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