topic Re: Promoting Polyester in Everything! in Fashion

Promoting Polyester in Everything!

amekmw — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:25:05 GMT

How many warnings to we need? Creating polyester clothing material generates a significant amount of pollution, primarily due to the energy-intensive production process using petroleum as a raw material, leading to high carbon emissions, and the release of harmful chemicals and microplastics into water sources during both production and washing cycles; making it one of the most environmentally damaging textile materials currently used. Our environment is being destoyed, why?

Re: Promoting Polyester in Everything!

Kachina624 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:58:01 GMT

@amekmw. To answer your question, because natural fibers are more expensive and require extra care like ironing or, in the case or silk and wool, dry cleaning.

They are using more Rayon which is a natural fiber but requires processing.

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ThinkingOutLoud — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:03:30 GMT

I'm so glad you care about the environment. Anyone who does should be raising a big stink about all the chemtrails in the air. So maddening.

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Nightowlz — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:46:36 GMT

@ThinkingOutLoud wrote:
I'm so glad you care about the environment. Anyone who does should be raising a big stink about all the chemtrails in the air. So maddening.

@ThinkingOutLoud

I know they should stop the chemtrails. It was a nice sunny day with clear blue skies yesterday until they started their spraying. No such thing my A$$.

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Nightowlz — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:48:05 GMT

Polyester will only fill up our landfills with more toxic garbage that does Not biodegrade???

I don't understand why we are not taking advantage of HEMP?

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Nightowlz — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:49:47 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@amekmw. To answer your question, because natural fibers are more expensive and require extra care like ironing or, in the case or silk and wool, dry cleaning.

They are using more Rayon which is a natural fiber but requires processing.

@Kachina624

I can go without silk & wool. I want my cotton.

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kitcat51 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:00:10 GMT

All my clothing has some poly in it, I don't iron so it's easy care & wear for me.

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Bonkers1 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 19:29:00 GMT

Polyester is the way of the world.

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ROMARY — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:25:09 GMT

We should probably web search to find how many cotton farmers still grow cotton.

Cotton in the USA used to be plentiful.

When it's grown 'local', probably much less preservatives and chemical spraying for ocean transport/shipping to the US.

Just transport the cotton via train for weaving, etc. to local fabric weaving/ manufacturers.

If that makes any sense......

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Meowingkitty — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:08:58 GMT

Because if you're like me I'm not going to iron anything period. I don't even own an iron. If it wrinkles in the store it stays in the store. I don't care what it's made out of. I just want clothes that don't wrinkle and keep me cool no matter the fiber.

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Carmie — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:19:13 GMT

Horse hockey!!!

I only wear natural fabrics....mostly cotton, but linen and wool too. I never iron anything and I do not wear wrinkled clothing.

I have very few items made with poly and wish I didn't have to buy any.

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BirkiLady — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:25:10 GMT

Count me in as a natural fiber buyer only. Periodically, I'll buy jeans or an Issac top at QVC (only if 95% cotton), but my usual purchases are WoolOvers (all kinds of natural fibers) or TopShop. You get what you pay for and saving our earth is far more important to me. Buy quality items and you won't have to iron either!

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We rescue cats — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:35:21 GMT

Several years ago I switched all the cat boxes (13 of them) in our home over to pine pellets so that we would have only sawdust to worry with when we emptied the boxes. That clumping kitty litter is horrible for the environment, it releases methane gas and clay kitty litter is NOT biodegradable. In addition to being kinder to the environment it is also a LOT kinder to my wallet! I pay $7 per 40 # of pine pellets as opposed to $16-20 and the pine pellets last me twice as long. . . and is biodegradable.

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Nonametoday — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:23:32 GMT

@ROMARY wrote:
We should probably web search to find how many cotton farmers still grow cotton.

Cotton in the USA used to be plentiful.

When it's grown 'local', probably much less preservatives and chemical spraying for ocean transport/shipping to the US.

Just transport the cotton via train for weaving, etc. to local fabric weaving/ manufacturers.

If that makes any sense......

@ROMARY

I think most of our cotton now comes from India and it does not feel as refined as when it was grown and ginned in America. There is cotton and there is cotton. When I was growing up, all cotton felt more refined. They did not sell that with cockleburs still in it, which some of what we get nowadays feels stiff and burly

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songbird — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:45:10 GMT

Most countries grow their own cotton. All you need is some periodic warm temp. Cotton is the basic stable, but it's added as blend with linen and sometimes silk & really anything under the sun. There's a sweater I wanted at Banana Republic. Half cotton, half silk. Only hand wash. Till I read the care instructions. No way in the world would I want that. Cost was $150.00. Oh and the silk was Mulberry (the best silk in the world) You know what they do to silk worms. They prod and poke them, then boil them alive. Silk worms don't have brains, but a central nervious system just like us. It's not a pretty site.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:40:12 GMT

@Carmie wrote:
Horse hockey!!!

I only wear natural fabrics....mostly cotton, but linen and wool too. I never iron anything and I do not wear wrinkled clothing.

I have very few items made with poly and wish I didn't have to buy any.

@Carmie. Congratulations on being the owner of a magic wand.

Re: Promoting Polyester in Everything!

Kachina624 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:43:03 GMT

@songbird wrote:
Most countries grow their own cotton. All you need is some periodic warm temp. Cotton is the basic stable, but it's added as blend with linen and sometimes silk & really anything under the sun. There's a sweater I wanted at Banana Republic. Half cotton, half silk. Only hand wash. Till I read the care instructions. No way in the world would I want that. Cost was $150.00. Oh and the silk was Mulberry (the best silk in the world) You know what they do to silk worms. They prod and poke them, then boil them alive. Silk worms don't have brains, but a central nervious system just like us. It's not a pretty site.

@songbird. Hate to tell you but we do have brains, most of us anyway.

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Maloyo — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:58:31 GMT

My paternal great-grand parents left the share-cropping south about 110 years ago so they wouldn't have to grow cotton (or whatever) for somebody else. That's what I think of 'local' grown cotton. Sorry, but I'm not nostalgic for that way of life. Further, I don't miss 100% cotton garments. Ditto 100% wool. Too wrinkly, too gummy for cotton, too heavy for coats and too scratchy for wool. Modern textiles last longer, wick moisture better, wrinkle less, and are easier to maintain.

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Carmie — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:56:16 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Carmie wrote:
Horse hockey!!!

I only wear natural fabrics....mostly cotton, but linen and wool too. I never iron anything and I do not wear wrinkled clothing.

I have very few items made with poly and wish I didn't have to buy any.

@Carmie. Congratulations on being the owner of a magic wand.

There is no magic wand necessary. I have always been a fan of 100% cotton. I cried as a child when my mother bought me silky nylon panties and wouldn't wear them. She had to get me cotton. I was maybe three years old.

I have over a hundred 100% cotton knit t shirts. I have numerous sleeve lengths and wear them all year around. All my sweaters are cotton as well as my jeans and trouser pants.

I wash almost everything with cold or luke warm water and hang on hangers to dry. In the winter, I pop my clothing into the dryer just to warm them up ( the water is too cold).

Then I quickly hang them on a hanger. There are no wrinkles. You cannot stuff cotton in the dryer and cook the fabric or it will wrinkle.

Once my clothing is dry, I just transfer the hangers with the clothing to my closet.

Cotton sweaters are warmed up and laid flat to dry.

I very seldom iron anything. I did iron a white shirt for my husband on Friday for a funeral under his suit jacket. I had to set up my board and iron and blow the dust off.

Someday poly will be outlawed. There are billions of pounds of poly clothing polluting our planet. It doesn't break down and will lasts for hundreds of years. Plastic is ruining our land, water and food.

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DrumPounder — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:25:28 GMT

@Maloyo, thank you for your perspective re: “local cotton.” I never thought about it that way before.