Knowing the fabric that your fashion apparel is made with is a major part of styling yourself. Now that we’ve gone over polyester and rayon, this third blog of a four-part series will discuss the details of acrylic and nylon, which are both widely used in the fashion industry today. 

Acrylic and nylon are both synthetic fabrics, with very different histories and features. Made in similar ways, they both were created in the USA, by the American Dupont Corporation. Acrylic was created to mimic wool, and nylon was created to help find alternatives to silk and hemp for parachutes in World War II (WW2). Let’s dive a little more into the characteristics of each.