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2. Sharkskin - Wikipedia

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   Sharkskin is a twill weave fabric created using acetate, rayon, worsted wool, lycra, and other plastic fibers. The arrangement of darker and brighter threads in a twill weave creates a subtle pattern of lines that run across the fabric diagonally and a two tone, lustrous appearance.

3. 50 Secondhand Finds That Are As Strange As They Are Wonderful

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   Image credits: Weird And Wonderful Secondhand Finds Around 40% of the clothes that are exported to Ghana, which is one of the largest recipients of secondhand fashion from Europe, is considered to ...

4. Fiona Fairhurst - Wikipedia

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   Speedo built a suit with material that mimicked the surface of shark skin and with denticles that patterned the same ridges within a shark’s skin. The Speedo Fastskin debuted at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where 83% of the medals were won by swimmers wearing this new suit, and 13 of 15 world records were broken by fastskin wearers. [4]

5. Robert Hall Clothes - Wikipedia

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   Robert Hall produced its clothing in the U.S., mostly in the lower Hudson Valley near Poughkeepsie, New York, and in North Carolina. Ultimately the offshoring of clothing production in the 1970s doomed the company when it failed to follow suit and was undercut by retailers like K-Mart and other similar department stores.

6. Shark skin - Wikipedia

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7. 1970s in fashion - Wikipedia

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   Men began to wear three-piece suits (which became available in a variety of colours including powder blue, beige, white as worn by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, brown polyester, and shiny silver sharkskin) which were characterized by wide lapels, wide-legged or flared trousers, and high-rise waistcoats (US vests). [375]