Chemical engineer, Nigel Holbrook married his childhood sweetheart, Agnes Pembleton in 1946. Within a year, she had developed an extreme case of body odor which Holbrook attributes to an accident occurring in his laboratory. “Agnes was always meddling around my concoctions,” Holbrook said. The stench was so unbearable, Holbrook created a plastic suit for his wife to wear. She wore the oxygen-filled apparatus everywhere and became known to the townsfolk as The Plastic Lady. The Oak Hill Gazette, Austin, Texas, 1948