Shag Carpeting

Shag carpeting is an amazing idea.

Apparently in the late 50's and early 60's, those clever guys at DuPont found that their new polyester fibers could be made into carpeting; and more than that, since their new fibers were so different and miraculous, you could make extremely high pile, shaggy cut carpeting, and it wouldn't become matted into a disgusting mess of plastic fiber, dust, shed hair, dead skin and spilled drinks.

So that's how they sold it to a thankful public.

And, naturally, shag carpeting proved to almost instantly become matted into a disgusting mess of plastic fiber, dust, shed hair, dead skin and spilled drinks.

Simply amazing.