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Sabre

Sabre

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In the 50's and 60's artificial fabric had some cachet. By the 80's, it was cheap and nasty. Now 100% polyester clothing is being promoted as technical fabric. Standard products are being diluted with artificial fibres, Merino wool with Acrylic and Cotton with Viscose and Polyester. There are full ranges of clothing and bedding in Modal, Viscose, Lyocell and Tencel.

You really have to look hard at product descriptions.
 
Sabre said:
In the 50's and 60's artificial fabric had some cachet. By the 80's, it was cheap and nasty. Now 100% polyester clothing is being promoted as technical fabric. Standard products are being diluted with artificial fibres, Merino wool with Acrylic and Cotton with Viscose and Polyester. There are full ranges of clothing and bedding in Modal, Viscose, Lyocell and Tencel.

You really have to look hard at product descriptions.
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aye, natural fibers for the win. we must be 10% plastic by now. i try to buy natural fibers, i have wool duvets, socks jumpers and carpets and i also look at labels to see what things are made of.
 
I spend most of my time outside doing something (unless I’m trapped in the office) ‘technical’ clothing vastly out performs natural fibre for 95% things, but there are situations where tweed, waxed cotton and leather boots win.
 
Dickie said:
I spend most of my time outside doing something (unless I’m trapped in the office) ‘technical’ clothing vastly out performs natural fibre for 95% things, but there are situations where tweed, waxed cotton and leather boots win.
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I’m afraid I am the opposite. On my multi day walks I always use merino wool tops as I can wear it for at least a week before it starts the develop an odour. Technical fabrics are great at wicking sweat away from your body but I found the smell of sweat after one day was a big drawback. They certainly have their place and are more durable but I find ultra fine merino much nicer to wear next to the skin than technical fabrics. Just my two penneth.
 
Presumably the artificials, many derived from oil and such things, will be unobtainable when they are proscribed. We can but hope that sheep and such will not be done away with in the UK as well.
 
TobyC said:
Let's see now, oil is bad, plastic is bad, animals are bad, farming is bad,... I guess we'll just huddle together and eat each other 'till we're gone, while the elite fly around in private jets eating steak telling us it's all our fault.
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I enjoy crispy bacon, medium steak, wooly jumpers, fine cotton bedding and quality leather shoes...
 
Sabre said:
I had a not too bright colleague who believed that Glycerin was only manufactured from dead bodies. I was like "Fight Club" is a fictional movie...
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According to papers like the Times and the Daily Mail, dead German soldiers were loaded onto railway cars and shipped from the front. German soldiers unloaded the corpses deep in a densely wooded area protected by electrified fences. They hung them from constantly moving hooks on a chain where they were fed into the factory. The bodies were then rendered into essential fats that were further processed into soap, lubricating oils, candles and nitroglycerine for explosives.

Everything else was ground down into a fine powder to be mixed with pig feed or used as manure. Here was proof of the Huns’ inhuman depravity and the effectiveness of the British Naval Blockade.



The corpse factory and the birth of fake news

WWI History: Britain “Exposes” Germany's Corpse Conversion Factory

The German Corpse Factories “the most appalling atrocity story” of WWI according to some.
 
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