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5 unusual facts about spandex


Anne White

When she took the tracksuit off to start play, she revealed that she was wearing a white, one-piece, lycra body suit, which attracted a lot of attention from the crowd and the photographers.

Michael Markowitz

Michael Markowitz was responsible for the cliffhanger ending of the Duckman series, about which he has said: “We never formally planned Part II...and I’ll never tell what I personally had in mind. I’m hoping to leave it to my heirs, for the inevitable day when Duckman is revived by future generations. Ah, the Spandex suits they’ll wear, the hovercrafts they’ll fly!”

Rock-climbing equipment

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the trend was to wear tight, brightly coloured clothes often made from Spandex.

Sheldon E. Isakoff

His major contributions include the development of EFT Dacron and nylon processes, improvements to Mylar and Cronar process, and the establishment of the first Lycra plant in the world.

The Adventure of Iron Pussy

Donning an all-black Spandex outfit and mask one night, Iron Pussy uncovers Mr. Henry's plot – he's making a mind-control drug.


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Darlexx

Darlexx is thicker, more constricting, and more opaque than spandex, which has led to its use in a range of fetish and bondage garments, such as hobble skirts, straitjackets, and hoods.

Hyosung

Contracted with Goodyear for the long-term supply of Tire Cords and Contracted to take over four Factories around the World; acquired an Agfa photo production facility in Germany; acquired the Nantong Hyosung Transformer Co., Ltd. in China; acquired Dongguk Trade's spandex factory in China

Scott Page-Pagter

In 2010, former Blue Power Ranger David Yost came out about his homosexuality in an interview with No Pink Spandex.

Spandex fetishism

Gay porn star Peter Berlin popularized spandex fetishism beginning in the 1970s in the many erotic photographs he posed for that were published in many gay pornographic magazines, regular gay magazines, and in the theatre magazine After Dark.

Unskinny Bop

In his book A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex, professional wrestler Chris Jericho states that he used Unskinny Bop as his entrance theme in his first professional match, and continued to use it as theme music while wrestling on the Canadian independent circuit in the early 1990s.


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