Surface decoration and texture clashes got more and more innovative from flocked duffle coats with hoods stuffed with plastic frills to a damask dress crammed with sequin shards and colourful crystal embroidery. Even strips of that foamy pyramid catwalk popped up on waistbands. No doubt, it got more and more expensive too. Heaven knows the price tag of that flocked intarsia mink coat, with boiled wool back, and plastic geometric tablets appliquéd to the front.