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2. PVC clothing - Wikipedia

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   PVC clothing is shiny clothing made from the plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC). [1] PVC plastic is often called "vinyl" and this type of clothing is commonly known as "vinyl clothing". [2] PVC is sometimes confused with the similarly shiny patent leather. The terms "PVC", "vinyl" and "PU" tend to be used interchangeably by retailers for clothing ...

3. Vinylon - Wikipedia

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   Vinylon. North Korean men wearing uniforms made from vinylon. Vinylon, also known as Vinalon (more common in Korean sources), is a synthetic fiber produced from reaction between polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber and formaldehyde. Chemically it is polyvinyl formal (PVF). Vinylon was first developed in Japan in 1939 by Ri Sung-gi, Ichiro Sakurada ...

4. Rudi Gernreich - Wikipedia

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   Rudolf " Rudi " Gernreich[1] (August 8, 1922 – April 21, 1985) was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposefully used fashion design as a social statement to advance sexual freedom, producing clothes that followed ...

5. Oilcloth - Wikipedia

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   The cloth was waxed or dusted with pumice to reduce sticking when folding was required. Seams in traditional oilcloth could be coated after sewing to reduce leakage through their stitching. This was generally unsatisfactory for clothing though and so overcoats of this era would incorporate one or more short capes over the shoulders. These capes ...

6. Naugahyde - Wikipedia

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   Naugahyde. Naugahyde is an American brand of artificial leather. Naugahyde is a composite knit fabric backing and expanded polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coating. It was developed by Byron A. Hunter, a senior chemist at the United States Rubber Company, and is now manufactured and sold by the corporate spin-off Uniroyal Engineered Products LLC.

7. Polyvinyl chloride - Wikipedia

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   Dielectric Breakdown Voltage. 40 MV/m. Polyvinyl chloride (alternatively: poly (vinyl chloride), [6][7] colloquial: vinyl[8] or polyvinyl; abbreviated: PVC[8]) is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic polymer of plastic (after polyethylene and polypropylene). About 40 million tons of PVC are produced each year.