Sheex feel ridiculously silky and are made of 82% Microfiber Polyester, 18% Lycra Spandex.
The typical surfboard is a slab of petroleum-spawned polyurethane slathered in layers of toxic polyester resin.
"The new generation, my children's generation, do not think anything about polyester, " she says.
The dining-room table was set for two: placemats, plates, polyester napkins blooming from industrial-strength wineglasses.
In 1967, while studying in Hamburg, she found herself sculpting with fibreglass and polyester.
"Only 25% of the breathable polyester and cotton mix touches your skin, " he explains.
"A polyester reinforcement at the core with probably a polythene layer around that, " Garvey said.
It's made by wrapping plastic from recycled bottles around a polyester fiber and swaddling it all in cotton.
He wears gray polyester pants and a blue-and-white-checked shirt--short-sleeved and semitransparent so you can see his T shirt.
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His coach, Rick Leach, a former No. 1 doubles player, suggested loosening up when playing with polyester strings.
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It consists of a mesh of polypropylene (the stuff used to make Astroturf) sandwiched between layers of nonwoven polyester.
The mostly male gamblers, however, wear tacky windbreakers, polyester pants and golf shirts.
The flat devices are integrated with a polyester backing familiar from stick-on tattoos.
But The Polyester Prince presents reams of information in a highly readable fashion.
It sells some of the most hideous things devised by man polyester Persian carpets, plastic executive desks and plastic gilded bookshelves.
Director John Waters sent up the concept by having scratch-and-sniff cards passed out with tickets at his 1981 film, Polyester.
The plastination process involves replacing the natural body fluids with synthetic materials such as silicone rubber, epoxy resin or polyester.
Del Toro has kept a family photograph of him and his sister, Susana, both under ten and forced into polyester finery.
The court heard four purple polyester fibres had been found in the Land Rover which bore a "microscopic resemblance" to April's coat.
Much has changed about man-made fabrics since John Waters used "polyester" as a metaphor for trashiness in his 1981 film by that name.
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BYD, for example, is the world's largest maker of nickel-cadmium batteries, and India's Reliance Group makes more polyester fibre and yarn than anyone else.
Plain canvas bags and unisex, polyester-blend T-shirts bear each designer's take on Mr. Obama and his campaign's ubiquitous red, white and blue sunrise logo.
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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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.
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.
Talbot Runhof also works with polypropylene, transparent acrylic and polyester georgette.
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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.
You could venture that this bistro is a snazzy Manhattan version of such a place, bustling with aging Chelsea gents instead of Sunday drivers in polyester slacks.
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.
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