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Synthetics – why theyre not necessary
Long ass post but there’s a clothing-related point.
For the winter I bought a merino wool thermal layer for my legs. I found a pair that were 100% merino for a good price. When I unwrapped them, they were literally SO stretchy that I had to re-check the label to make sure they had 0% synthetics. And theyre not itchy at all. After a couple months of wearing the same pair every work day, there’s no sign of wear. This is proof that the idea that clothing like socks and underwear absolutely NEED synthetics for durability and stretch is complete BULLSHIT. You don’t need to put plastic on your body.
Also, when I was looking for merino socks, I read info on a manufacturer’s website that was very enlightening. Their socks were ~40% wool and then 10-20% each of various synthetics. They claimed that this was because the different synthetics all had different qualities that made the perfect sock. Yet It also said that, by US law, wool MUST be the largest single material to market it as wool clothing. So they basically admitted that they use a melange of 4 synthetics just to ensure that wool is still technically the plurality, so they can be legally labeled as merino socks. Another reason not to trust the narrative that synthetics are for performance and not cost-cutting.
What is your job. I walk 10 miles a day at work.
Mailman
Never counted the miles, probably half that or less since theres a mix of driving and walking areas, but theres a fair amount of repetitive movement
No you don’t
Not to mention how stupid it is to walk around all day with plastic in your clothing
Yeah it’s amazing the lies fed. How did people before the invention of plastics wear socks then? Oh if you’d need a garter then you get some, one also without plastic shit like how they used to make em
The only advantages of polyester base layers are price, durability and drying times. I like hiking and I have a 100% merino shirt from odlo which is indeed better than all my other polyester shirts.
Also breathability. Whenever i wear polyester i end up sweaty as hell.
I imagine the materials/knits for stuff like pro cyclist gear must be engineered for good breathability. But for regular clothes, synthetics are not comfortable.
You are close to realizing the scale of the operation of shifting accountability for petroleum waste and byproducts from corporations to consumers. Even smaller local companies are just unwitting dupes to facilitate the exchange. Plastic spits in the face of the biological/preternatural creature. "plastic is cheap" is STILL a marketing gimmick. Plastic is quite literally worthless, and, considering it’s uniquity, you are being conned paying even a cent for anything made of it. Moreoever, the culture of plastic enabling cheap manufacture has even mutated classically designed garments such that, even when made of 100% natural local materials, they are shaped like something out of a chinese factory, designed by a brain fried homosexual or some borderline lardass woman.
Plastic is cheap enough to be tempting to consumers, and priced at all, to legally justify it’s path down the hierarchy quickly, considering that it is already waste this process is outrageous. Soon enough, the end user has a whole house full of literal garbage refashioned into otherwise useless items. Eventually they have to throw their crap away or dispose of it by burning. So they pay twice, once for the inherently defective product, which is an explicitly fiscal exchange, and twice – this time, the cost isn’t necessarily monetary – for the inevitable disposal of it. If they pay in money, they pay the municipal council or a contracted private company who have their money circulate back up to where the chain began via the same unwitting dupe nepotism.
You can look at it from so many angles. My favorite is the schizo interpretation, that ‘they’ who profit off of such an exchange are trying to destroy the world and the quality of the souls thereof. Even in that interpretation you can go for the bataillean view, that such waste is part of the vigor and violence of reality, or the mystical view, that it’s a kind of tikkun olam/tempting hand of God.
Not to mention the eventual degradation of all life through the outrageous creep of microplastics into the environment.
Why does /fashion/ always have the best conspiracy theories?
Because the fashion industry truly is dominated by conspiring forces. The trends for the next two years at least have already been decided by industry elites
Is it true that polyester underwear lowers your testosterone?
No that’s stupid
Yes. But all tight underwear lowers your testosterone.
plastics have bisphenols and or phthalates in them that are endocrine disruptors. This is not a conspiracy theory it’s just fact
By proxy regardless.
Take your meds. Transdermal microplastics are a conspiracy.
I’m not the one who said anything about microplastics. Maybe you should take your meds seeing as you can’t connect the post links properly.
Meds and sproke.
I have one synthetic fleece vest, the rest of my clothes are wool, cotton or leather, besides my barbour jacket which has a poly liner bit that runs along the bottom of the jacket, unfortunately.
Good thread, we need more hate on synthetics
Did you know that in Saudi Arabia, one of the hottest countries in the world, most people wear 100% polyester clothing?
I checked the material of these cloths the other day and was shocked to know there weren’t any without a large percentage of synthetics. I thought synthetics had low breathability, why are most people in my country wearing it?
Oil country wears oil?
Our relation to animals is more interesting-I mean to the animals we eat. We adore eating veal, lamb, beef, antelope, pheasant, or grouse, but we don’t throw away their "leftovers."
We dress in leather and adorn ourselves with feathers. Like the Chinese, we devour duck without wasting a bit; we eat the whole pig, from head to tail; but we get under these animals’ skins as well, in their plumage or in their hide.
Men in clothing live within the animals they devoured. And the same thing for plants. We eat rice, wheat, apples, the divine eggplant, the tender dandelion; but we also weave silk, linen, cotton; we live within the flora as much as we live within the fauna.
We are parasites; thus we clothe ourselves. Thus we live within tents of skins like the gods within their tabernacles. Look at him well-dressed and adorned, magnificent; he shows-he showed-the clean carcass of his host.
Of the soft parasite you can see only the clean-shaven face and the hands, sometimes with out their kid gloves. We parasite each other and live amidst parasites. Which is more or less a way of saying that they constitute our environment.
We live in that black box called the collective; we live by it, on it, and in it. It so happens that this collective was given the form of an animal: Leviathan. We are certainly within something bestial; in more distinguished terms, we are speaking of an organic model for the members of a society.
Our host? I don’t know. But I do know that we are within. And that it is dark in there.
M. Serres – The Parasite
what zero pussy does to a mf
Parasites don’t kill their hosts. Humans do. Humans are hunters. Pseud take.
anybody familiar with merino.tech? they claim life time warranty, is it legit?
Not sure about their base layers but I got a 3 pack of their socks for work last year and they were very comfortable while they lasted, but all 3 started rapidly developing holes after about 9 months of wear. If they had a lifetime warranty, i didnt realize or forgot because I replaced them with Darn Tough socks. Which arent as soft but hopefully last longer.
>lifetime warranty
>return within 60 days
What? 30 day return policy is standard.
>lifetime warranty
This is misleading. Lifetime warranty = lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of (you).
We also inhale micro plastics from these garments which lead to cancers and other health problems.
The synthetic materials are also likely sourced from asia and involved slave labour in their manufacturing.
Synthetics are a failed human experiment
Look at the fluffy girl!
I’m surprised more people are disgusted by the idea that most sports clothes are either plastic or recycled plastic
top athletes compete in 100% synthetic jerseys and shorts
military including special forces wear uniforms with at least 50% synthetics
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Okay? Are you a top athlete or a soldier?
I think his point is that polyester is clearly superior to all other materials for some use cases. Running around and sweating for sure.