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Its known as Pleather! A short history...... Posted by andy [Email]  (#759) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from andy) on Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:06:51
In Reply to: What is leatherette?, robs, Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:58:38 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Pleather is the harvested vinyl hide taken from the Pleathersaurus, one of the original dinosaurs discovered in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950's. The best pleather is made from Virgin Vinyl. Virgin Vinyl is found only on the ugliest Pleathersuarai.
It looks like leather, smells like a kiddie pool liner and could only be damaged on the occasion when your father told you that you could not have the car tonight, but you took it anyway to go for a ride with your friends.
It fell into disuse in the late 1970's as American's thighs got heavier, their shorts got shorter and the occasional burns from the hot sun were outnumbered by the digusting noise made by those sweaty thighs being peeled off the hot pleather at the end of a car trip. This noise led to the phrase "Eeeeww, Gross!" in Southern California, where the fashionable trend towards real leather and thinner thighs continues to this day.
As a luxury brand, SAAB only used Pleather where no one would see it, to cover the lower inside rear of its famed Classic 900 hatchback, and used polyester velour for its seats or optional real leather from Elmo, which scared the crap out of my kid when he learned to read the tag on the headrest. (I told him that since the seats were beige, they could not have come from a Sesame Street charecter. He bought it.) As SAAB no longer makes a hatchback, the demand for pleather has dropped accordingly. With help from General Motors, SAAB has managed to make the "stippled" leather of its new 9-3SS look like a kid's pleather football (see history of cheap sports equipment imported from China for WalMart), but pleather afficiandos were not deceived, they knew it was pigskin.
Virtually exinct in the auto industry today, pleather's last remaining market appears to be the bondage and S&M cultures in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, according to a review of most video stores and adult websites.
I hope this helps.
posted by 216.179....
, Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:29:49, Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:34:27, Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:06:51 <-- Viewing This Message
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