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Polyester (1981) More at IMDbPro »

• Presented in "Odorama". Numbered scratch & sniff cards were issued at the theatre, to be scratched when the appropriate number appeared in the corner of the screen.
  
  
• The "Scents" on the Odorama card were as follows: 1. Roses 2. Flatulence 3. Model Airplane Glue 4. Pizza 5. Gasoline 6. Skunk 7. Natural Gas 8. New Car Smell 9. Dirty Shoes 10. Air Freshener
  
  
• The look of the film was influenced by the work of 1950s director Douglas Sirk.
  
  
• Marks the last time that John Waters would work with regular Cookie Mueller. She was dying of AIDS when he began production on his next film, Hairspray (1988).
  
  
• The Fishpaws live at "Wyman Way", Jane Wyman was the lead in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955), which is one of the film's inspirations.
  
  
• In the scene where Todd is standing around the car accident, since real ambulances where used and local people called the police reporting that there was an accident.
  
  
• The "intellectual" theatre that Todd Tomorrow takes Francine Fishpaw to, has on the marquee "3 Marguerite Duras Hits: 'The Truck', 'India Song', and 'Destroy, She Said'."
  
  

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