• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    I’m literally wearing a shirt from a decade ago right now. It is made of 100% cotton, and the underarms have ripped recently

    Why? Because my more recent clothing dissolved we when I tugged at them gently. Just fucking fell apart, not even at the seams, just tore like paper

    So I practice on the plastic bullshit so I can sew up the cotton when I need to

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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      1 day ago

      again, that’s a choice you made… you can make your own clothes out of linen and the tools to do it are more available to you because they’re not hand crafted, but you choose not to because you want to save time

      heck, you can buy a shirt that’s 5x the price that will last but you choose the cheap shirt so you can have 5 of them

      this is the same argument that we don’t build the coliseum any more and therefor we’re not as good at making concrete as ancient romans… modern society is built on engineering, and engineering doesn’t build things that lasts 2000 years that’s true, but that’s not what engineering is for

      engineering isn’t about building bridges that don’t fall down: engineering is about building bridges that barely stand up so you can have more of them

      the same goes with clothes… modern clothes aren’t made to last your entire life because they’d cost 5x more… people don’t actually want a shirt from their 20s when they’re 70 - people don’t even really want a shirt from their 20s when they’re 30! they want 5 shirts in their 20s and 5 more in their 30s, and they want to be unique and personal and they want to spend no time to acquire them

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      I actually don’t believe you. Like I don’t think your shirt fell apart like that, and I don’t think you bought a plastic shirt.

      Fabric lasting a long time isn’t odd. I’ve got a synthetic fabric gym bag from 20 years ago that’s fine. I’ve got a 10 year old synthetic blend shirt that’s never had an issue. I’ve got cotton shirts in the same range.

      Synthetic fibers tend to be more expensive, and are more durable for the fabric weight. It’s why they use them for safety equipment.

      You’re acting like none of us are familiar with clothes. Where are you buying disintegrating shirts, and why ? I’ve never encountered that and I’ve been wearing clothing for quite a while. I’ve only had any type of clothing tear like that if it snags on something like a nail.