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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is short stuff, stuff, stuff.

About a really amazing fad that I hadn't heard of until fairly recently Chuck.

I somehow knew about this.

Really?

Not sure how.

You think your mom might have worn a paper dress and told you about it or something?

I don't think so.

But we're talking about paper dresses.

In the mid 1960s, the Scott Paper Company had a new product to promote called Duraweave.

It's basically mostly paper and then about 70% rayon.

It was just a little more durable napkin that they were super stoked about.

It was all the rage.

I don't know what that has to do with rayon.

Rayon's kind of plastic.

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