Textiles you hate.

[SpokeyDokey]

Does anything made of pure wool count?

 

[slowmotion]

Does anything made of pure wool count?

Merino. Grotesquely over-priced, itches like hell, and quickly gets eaten by house moths. People drone on about its virtues almost as much as about Goretex.

 

[ColinJ]

Not always.
For some X-rays/scans they prefer you wear one.

The only times that I have had X-rays/scans... have been for scary health reasons!

 

[PeteXXX]

Crushed velvet

 

[Drago]

Crushed velvet

Not a Jason King fan then?

 

[stephec]

Latex, leather, and rubber.

Oh hang on you said hate didn't you?

 

[a.twiddler]

Heathen! That is the material of the finest Y fronts!

Not a member of the Betty Swollocks fan club. Give me cotton every time!

 

[raleighnut]

Merino. Grotesquely over-priced, itches like hell, and quickly gets eaten by house moths. People drone on about its virtues almost as much as about Goretex.

I've got an Alpaca jumper that itches unless you wear a shirt under it. My ex went on a 3 week holiday to Machu Pichu amongst other places in South America and bought it back for me, it is undyed in the four natural colours of the Alpaca (Cream, Grey. Brown and nearly Black) hand knitted in a block pattern similar to the Inca buildings. It's too warm unless you're outside.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Corduroy.

Cordings yellow ones by any chance? 🤔

 

[Accy cyclist]

Tweed, stinks of pish and itches like a begger

Only if you wear it next to your skin, which I can't think how/why you would.🤔 🧐 And to me tweed smells of lanolin, if it's 100 percent tweed. On about it smelling of pee, it used to be dyed using animal and or human pee in the process. Wool is supposed to be self cleansing, so if you pee your pants while wearing it the natural anti bacterial qualities are supposed to neutralise the bacteria.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I don't wear man made fibers these days, apart from when I'm dossing around my flat, meaning usually a man made fiber fleece (without a hood as I refuse to wear hoods🧐), sports shorts and that's about it. I go for cotton shirts and cotton underwear and cotton or wool socks, and wear tweed, wool and cotton velvet, corduroy outerwear. I Like silk, but only in ties as I've had silk shirts which draped poorly and you couldn't really wash them as they deteriorated after every wash, even though they were gently tepid water hand washed using a wool/silk friendly liquid. I bought a pair of Dents leather, silk lined gloves a few years ago, where the lining fell apart after a month or two's wear.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Crushed velvet

Not a Jason King fan then?

"Tut! tut! how dare he"!!

 

[DCBassman]

Dralon

 

[Drago]

Not a member of the Betty Swollocks fan club. Give me cotton every time!

Blimey, cotton Y fronts. That's a bit posh!

 

[Drago]

"Tut! tut! how dare he"!!
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