This polyester suit was fashionable: John Travolta's outfit in Saturday Night Fever put up for auction

"Back then, there were two television channels, four if you were lucky. To see movies you had to go to the theater, there was no entertainment on screens while traveling, there was no video on demand, no videos that kept coming to your cell phone. You had to save up to go to the movies, see a movie and take note of all the details, go and review the movie and take a good look at what the characters were wearing. Because people wanted to emulate that. That polyester suit, it was fashionable, it was the fashionable fabric, not like today. That's what people were looking at," recalls Martin Nolan, director of the auction.