Taffeta.

Her dress... taffeta.

Uhuh! Don't crush the taffeta.

Taffeta has a voice of its own.

... was wearing a taffeta dress, probably black.

That girl of mine had such a nice dress. Taffeta, red.

So out went the green scrubs and in came the polyester and floral prints.

After Homer phoned I wanted to borrow your new black taffeta dress...

The clue of the black taffeta dress, uncovered by ace columnist Casey Mayo, is believed to be the most important single piece of evidence brought to light in the Blue Gardenia murder case.

Moreover, the cotton market has continued to suffer from the global overcapacity of the polyester sector, and it can be expected that competition from synthetics will continue to dampen the growth of cotton consumption over the long term.

My Mammy always said when she went to heaven... she wanted a red taffeta petticoat, so stiff that it would stand by itself... and so rustly, the Lord would think it was made of angels' wings.

And that meant that everyone in the family had to sign up to take her to have her hair dyed, you know, that peculiar color of blue that matches her polyester pants suit, you know, same color as the Buick.

In the measure that you have the source code, as all of you know, you can change the source code, and you can reprogram life forms so that this little thingy becomes a vaccine, or this little thingy starts producing biomaterials, which is why DuPont is now growing a form of polyester that feels like silk in corn.