Longevity and cost. It’s best used within a mix.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

I bet the discos smelled like BO, smoke, Charlie perfume, Brut cologne plus the added cache of split whiskey and vomit.

It stretches more than cotton, and cheaper and easier to clean than wool. Plus you could print wild designs.

Bingo! The leisure suit marketing was that you could simply fold it and put it in your suitcase.take it out and wear it wrinkle free. Polyster didn't affect me so much, but platform shoes??? Yikes.

Exactly.no more ironing

The advantage of polyester was that it was wrinkle free.
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Yogi Berra

The discos reeked of cigarette smoke. Smoking hadn't been banned yet.
I'll always remember how much I reeked of it later.
There was a place I went to with a big exhaust fan that blew horizontally across the parking lot. You could see the plume of smoke coming out of the building like this big horizontal geyser.

Yes, I knowworked for an auto parts store in the early '80s that had polyester pants as part of the uniform. Sweat like a pig in the summer and freeze your ass off in the winter.