On Gilligan's Island, how was it that the castaways' clothes never wore out?

In a show where the professor could MacGyver a TV out of a coconut and dental floss, yet still couldn’t get them off the island their always fresh clothes seems almost trivial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief

Polyester is bullet proof.

Haha..I have almost all the old Gilligans Island series on DVDs.
Well…Hollywood castaways are always going to have what they need, including a good wardrobe. haha
The funny part is, remember it was supposed to be a 3 hour tour…so why did they all, especially Ginger and the Howells have trunk fulls of clothes and belongings with them?
That’s Hollywood. lol

Because they weren’t really there

For the same reason that Ginger’s hair was never lank or greasy and James Bond never got inconvenient migraines or diarrhea.

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship.

Because it was not a documentary.

One of my favorite clips. haha

www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-NgcB7424

Thw lyrics are a riot and dig Mrs. Howell.

Why was the professor the only guest on the boat who didn’t bring a trunk full of clothes? All the other guests headed off on the three hour tour with a huge wardrobe, why not him? Remember Ginger had several evening gowns and Mary Ann had what seemed to be an endless supply of country girl dresses? Also, it seems to me that if anyone was going to have their complete wardrobe aboard that tiny ship it would be the two who worked, and presumably lived on board! I remember being a little kid watching reruns and wondering these things.

Mmmm, because it was a TV sitcom and not a documentary, you think?

Didn’t lost shipments of items float up on shore occasionally? (Like the cargo cults of Melanesia.)

I wonder if the old “my clothes are sure getting torn” line worked with Ginger…