It's also a handsome bag, clad in pale gray and white rip-stop nylon on the outside and a soft orange nylon inside.
In 1961, wearing a gas mask, Metzger performed one of the most famous acts of auto-destructive art when he threw hydrochloric acid at a sheet of nylon on London's South Bank.
They have black nylon on the outside and Kevlar on the inside, to stop the chain saw from cutting off your leg if something goes wrong up in the tree.
I was speechless over a grayish blue reversible jacket ($8,500), nylon on the side you wouldn't ever use, even in a rainstorm; and, on the side that counts, heavy, supple leather that suggested elephant skin.
"Brooke's dress is made of 65 percent polyester and 35 percent rayon for the skirt, and then 70 percent cotton and 30 percent nylon on the upper part," said the announcer, as a young girl stepped forward.
And matters aren't helped by the front of the device, which looks all the more cheap and plastic-ish thanks to the nylon on the back.
Designed to subtly blend divers and spearfishermen into the vibrant colors and shapes of the reef (rendering them invisible to unsuspecting fish), these camouflage suits feature open-cell neoprene on the inside for extra stretchiness and nylon on the outside.
Some of my students are sleeping under nothing but nylon, on a hard pebble beach, in the snow, just yards from the very ocean they arrived from.
Some of my students are sleeping under nothing but nylon, on a hard pebble beach, in the snow, just metres from the very ocean they arrived from.
