I buy my curtains & couches by look and feel. For pants, "denim" will go a long way. For shirts, I've learned to care a bit about fabric, because there are prop

I buy my curtains & couches by look and feel. For pants, "denim" will go a long way. For shirts, I've learned to care a bit about fabric, because there are properties (whether you'll sweat in them; whether they need to be ironed all the time to look OK) that are not evident from look and feel alone. To be sure, I recognized most of the fabric words as words (wouldn't have been sure about "sateen" as opposed to "satin"), but they only one I could have defined was "tulle". And in my part of the world, espadrilles are not infrequently worn by men. But it's funny how people who are utterly indifferent about fabrics can sometimes hold forth at length about the relative merits of PLA, PETG, ABS, PVA, or TPU ;-)