Satin Shine

What's with people's fascination with satin? Is it the look of it, feel of it, the knowledge of what must be lying beneath? Or is it at a more basic level of the oooh, shiny magpie thing?
Wore a satin shirt to this work for the first time... kinda forties style, with the long cuff, shaped waist and dark green... and nearly every person had to stroke my satin clad arm!
Didn't mind at all, kinda cool to be told how lovely I looked in it, yes I am a sucker for flattery, well most the time. Though it did start to get a little freaky when we went out later and one of the ladies stroked my hair and said how it matched my shirt in satiness. Had to quickly put at stop at that one as there was no way I was going to be stroked like a cat, that's Miss Yo Yo's job!