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> Another thing Im doing is switching to 100% cotton (or just no plastic fibers). I love the breathability and light feel of cotton shirts. I've been wanting t

by floren 2y ago

> Another thing Im doing is switching to 100% cotton (or just no plastic fibers). I love the breathability and light feel of cotton shirts. I've been wanting to do the same; it's kind of amazing how at some point everything started to be made with plastics, even jeans. If I had the time, space, and equipment, I'd make my own clothes from patterns. Because I have none, I guess I'll be carefully inspecting tags while shopping (and I'm prepared for a lot of frustration). Wish there was more of a cottage industry around homemade clothing!

InMice 2y ago
Ive honestly considered the same thing. Wouldnt it be nice to make a few tailored "masters" and then just make your own shirts off those. Perfect fit everytime time. It's just the senseless waste of the modern world. Like dry laundry soap, why cant i just bring my glass jar to the grocery store, tar it, refill from a bulk bin. Why do we have to make millions of plastic containers, so pointless. Ive only been to one grocery store in my life where this was possible. Im sick of senseless plastic everywhere. My personal theory is our biggest sources of plastic ingestion is: clothing made of plastic slowly wearing away and inhaling treadwear from car tires on the road.
- RandomThoughts3 2y ago
  > Ive honestly considered the same thing. Wouldnt it be nice to make a few tailored "masters" and then just make your own shirts off those. Perfect fit everytime time. That’s just called going to a tailor. But honestly, if you just want coton clothes, that’s not hard to find. It’s just more expensive.
- floren 2y ago
  100% agreed, and I've had the exact thought about soap (shampoo, in my case)! I love stores with 'bulk' sections, but they're usually just a small selection of dry cereals, beans, and nuts. Now, to work properly with your own jars, I think you'd want a shopkeeper doing the filling, so he could check the tare. A return to the general store of old, to some extent.
  - BigGreenJorts 2y ago
    It's been on my to-do list the past few months to find a bulk shampoo, body wash vendor of some kind. I got a body wash that has a bottle design that is just perfect for my shower. I want to get 2 more for shampoo and then just refill them endlessly with the bulk product. So far in my cursory searches I have found nothing , but I'd like to think eventually I'll find some chemicals company that makes the raw products for the value brands and buy from them.
    - floren 2y ago
      Shampoo is harder, but making your own soap is easy and satisfying and it works better than store-bought.
- thfuran 2y ago
  I'd think that most ingested plastic comes from food packaging.
- abdullahkhalids 2y ago
  > why cant i just bring my glass jar to the grocery store, tar it, refill from a bulk bin Bulk Barn in Canada is exactly this, and you can get all your spices and grains from there.
  - BigGreenJorts 2y ago
    I've only been to bulk barn on very rare occasions for certain candies that are hard to find elsewhere, but as far as I'm aware they only do food stuffs right? I don't think they sell detergents or cleaning materials? They're also more expensive that regular right? Hmm I suppose I'd be willing to pay for that tho.
Gigachad 2y ago
As far as I can tell, the plastics generally aren't even better at being clothes. They just cost less than cotton, which is why they generally blend cotton and polyester to create something that feels good enough while reducing the expensive cotton usage.
- thfuran 2y ago
  Synthetics often dry much faster than cotton and are more useable when wet.
  - floren 2y ago
    Some of the properties of synthetics are great, yeah, and I don't know to what extent I'll ever be able to get away from them for underwear and exercise gear, for those specific reasons.
  - BigGreenJorts 2y ago
    Seconding this. In the realm of winter clothing, wool is king, but real wool is pricey and the next best thing is probably polyester bc wet cotton is horrific.
itronitron 2y ago
Cotton is generally far worse for the environment than other natural fibers like linen and wool, as well as most synthetic fibers.
BigGreenJorts 2y ago
> Because I have none, I guess I'll be carefully inspecting tags while shopping (and I'm prepared for a lot of frustration) I've been doing it for years and yes there is a lot of frustration, but I do think after some time you gain the ability to just touch a product and get it's likely not made of 100% cotton (or linen or wool or whatever else) just by touch and in some cases the style of clothes. There are certain shapes that I can't quite describe, but seem to be impossible or at least not desirable in the 100% cotton realm of clothing.

by floren 2y ago

InMice 2y ago

Ive honestly considered the same thing. Wouldnt it be nice to make a few tailored "masters" and then just make your own shirts off those. Perfect fit everytime time. It's just the senseless waste of the modern world. Like dry laundry soap, why cant i just bring my glass jar to the grocery store, tar it, refill from a bulk bin. Why do we have to make millions of plastic containers, so pointless. Ive only been to one grocery store in my life where this was possible. Im sick of senseless plastic everywhere. My personal theory is our biggest sources of plastic ingestion is: clothing made of plastic slowly wearing away and inhaling treadwear from car tires on the road.

RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Ive honestly considered the same thing. Wouldnt it be nice to make a few tailored "masters" and then just make your own shirts off those. Perfect fit everytime time. That’s just called going to a tailor. But honestly, if you just want coton clothes, that’s not hard to find. It’s just more expensive.
floren 2y ago
100% agreed, and I've had the exact thought about soap (shampoo, in my case)! I love stores with 'bulk' sections, but they're usually just a small selection of dry cereals, beans, and nuts. Now, to work properly with your own jars, I think you'd want a shopkeeper doing the filling, so he could check the tare. A return to the general store of old, to some extent.
- BigGreenJorts 2y ago
  It's been on my to-do list the past few months to find a bulk shampoo, body wash vendor of some kind. I got a body wash that has a bottle design that is just perfect for my shower. I want to get 2 more for shampoo and then just refill them endlessly with the bulk product. So far in my cursory searches I have found nothing , but I'd like to think eventually I'll find some chemicals company that makes the raw products for the value brands and buy from them.
  - floren 2y ago
    Shampoo is harder, but making your own soap is easy and satisfying and it works better than store-bought.
thfuran 2y ago
I'd think that most ingested plastic comes from food packaging.
abdullahkhalids 2y ago
> why cant i just bring my glass jar to the grocery store, tar it, refill from a bulk bin Bulk Barn in Canada is exactly this, and you can get all your spices and grains from there.
- BigGreenJorts 2y ago
  I've only been to bulk barn on very rare occasions for certain candies that are hard to find elsewhere, but as far as I'm aware they only do food stuffs right? I don't think they sell detergents or cleaning materials? They're also more expensive that regular right? Hmm I suppose I'd be willing to pay for that tho.

Gigachad 2y ago

As far as I can tell, the plastics generally aren't even better at being clothes. They just cost less than cotton, which is why they generally blend cotton and polyester to create something that feels good enough while reducing the expensive cotton usage.

thfuran 2y ago
Synthetics often dry much faster than cotton and are more useable when wet.
- floren 2y ago
  Some of the properties of synthetics are great, yeah, and I don't know to what extent I'll ever be able to get away from them for underwear and exercise gear, for those specific reasons.
- BigGreenJorts 2y ago
  Seconding this. In the realm of winter clothing, wool is king, but real wool is pricey and the next best thing is probably polyester bc wet cotton is horrific.

itronitron 2y ago

Cotton is generally far worse for the environment than other natural fibers like linen and wool, as well as most synthetic fibers.

BigGreenJorts 2y ago

> Because I have none, I guess I'll be carefully inspecting tags while shopping (and I'm prepared for a lot of frustration) I've been doing it for years and yes there is a lot of frustration, but I do think after some time you gain the ability to just touch a product and get it's likely not made of 100% cotton (or linen or wool or whatever else) just by touch and in some cases the style of clothes. There are certain shapes that I can't quite describe, but seem to be impossible or at least not desirable in the 100% cotton realm of clothing.