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You don't have a good idea to replace synthetics in textiles, do you? I can't stand cotton shirts, but I would really like to skip synthetics.
If you live somewhere cold – wool.
If you live somewhere hot – linen.
I think I have to give linen a second chance. Or maybe modal/lycocell/etc. Germany isn't sub Saharan warm, but I'm built like an oven 😐
Edit: oh, this is why I gave up on them. I'm not paying 85€ for a single shirt
Keep an eye out at thrift shops, maybe? I assume those exist near you. Probably much less availability that way, so you might have to look for a while, and fewer pattern options as a result, but cheaper and for a test maybe better because already pre-softened through wash and wear?
Bamboo? I have bamboo socks that are warm and soft, but they take a little extra to dry
I tried, but it was really hard finding good quality. It shrunk to show my soft, rosy belly 😐
Right now I'm wearing a wool shirt under a linen shirt. I'd count the local weather as "warm"
Yeah, wool is good in hot weather as well. Especially since it very effectively combats body odor. I was just trying to give a rule of thumb.
If we banned plastics (gutting their lobbies affecting everything from taxes, laws/regulation, logistics, etc) we would have natural replacements in like 5 years & nobody would even think of the times before (except for environmental cleanup purposes).
They said you can't have water-tight bags from non-fossil fuel sauces, now they are everywhere. The paper industry just like developed see-through water-tight "paper" (the lil windows in envelopes & some packaging) bcs they didn't want to deal with the petrol industry.
The non-plastic drinking straws? Yeah, explain to me why they intentionally sux even tho we always had the materials for a seamless transition?
(Also, just in case an fyi - cotton, like wool, can be processed and woven if very much different ways which makes for basically divergent materials, it's a whole science. The mainstream stuff is mostly the same tho.)
The fact that some paper straws perform as well as plastic suggests that the bad ones are just cheaper and are used by companies that don't care. When I used to drink the sort of drinks that use straws I carried a steel straw to use in places that didn't supply good straws
Yeah, logistics are hard & I imagine a small bar/café doesn't have the (kind of?) staff to think about straws or where else to search for the ones that don't fill costumes with nasty shit - they just pick whatever their usual supplier has on offer so it's less paperwork.
And it's not like anyone blamed them for shitty straws anyway.
People wore animal and plant based clothing for hundreds of thousands of years
And I can't stand how it feels. Cotton feels sweaty all the time and wool is just too warm. I'm starting to wear sweaters when temperatures hit single digits (Celsius) and jackets when below zero. I'm not made for warm and friendly. I need breathable. Cotton sucks here.
The opposite for me, synthetic clothing makes me sweat like a bastard, I try to only buy 100% cotton shirts and stuff
Strange. But I'm dripping in that stuff.
Get yourself a merino wool base layer shirt, like a thin one not sweater thick. It'll be surprisingly cool.
Try hemp or bamboo fibre (has different names like rayon, tencel, lyocell).
You could try different thicknesses of cotton and see how it feels. Or cotton blended with the other materials. Some companies list their shirts as lightweight or heavyweight or give cloth weight in gsm (grams per square meter) or oz (ounces per square yard). A lightweight and oversized shirt will be good in the heat.
I'll try that. Thank you.
I live in Australia and I wear 100% cotton very regularly, including summer. It was 39° today and I've been wearing a cotton shirt all day.
It certainly does not feel sweaty all the time.
Good thing how you perceive the world is how everyone perceives it. Thanks for helping me understand I don't know how I feel.
You're totally right, your perception is valid and should be fair to share, and mine should not. Put another way - where did I say your feelings are wrong, or that my perspective is universal.
I hate seeing natural clothing fibres being slandered, especially under an article talking about how we're choking the planet with microplastics.. Seems like a good time to point out I have the opposite experience.
Your last sentence certainly doesn't look like you were appreciating my point of view, but I might be wrong on this. Anyway, I won't put too much of care into that discussion. Sorry for being snarky.
Have you tried Rayon? It's a semi synthetic fabric made from cellulose and iirc biodegradades decently.
I have never heard of this, but I will have a look. Thanks for the suggestion.
This is a really good point. Most of my synthetics clothes have been made of a rayon blend, so maybe they were not so bad after all.
This would be an excellent point to clarify.
I'm interested, but I wasn't able to find a shirt yet. I have to keep digging.
some people are allergic to cotton, because of lanolin produced by sheep that is aprt of the wool, people are allergic to it. polyester also can cause rashes in some people.
Uh.. Cotton is not wool.