Promoting Polyester in Everything! - Page 2

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

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.

BirkiLady · ‎02-22-2015

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!

Money screams; wealth whispers.

We rescue cats · ‎01-25-2023

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.

Lynn-Critter Lover!
(especially cats!)

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@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

songbird · ‎03-21-2010

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.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@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.

New Mexico☀️Land Of Enchantment

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@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.

New Mexico☀️Land Of Enchantment

Maloyo · ‎09-05-2014

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.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@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.