A Possible Case for Wearing Natural Fibers

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Cotton, Baby! The world's foremost luxury fabric. Love you long time.

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But Nomex is great stuff for working around fire and works.

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I recently read an article about brominated azo dyes as mutagenic contaminants in home environments: https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/11/Bromine-containi... Thus, clothes dyed with these compounds should be avoided.

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I find that natural fibers 'breathe' allowing sweat to evaporate rather than run down my body.

This depends mostly on how the fiber is woven and less on the choice of fiber.
You never know what you'll learn from a relation with a costume maker

I too, FAR prefer cotton to synthetics.

Although for a labcoat, I stick to wearing a heavy leather trenchcoat, that is, for looks, past its best, and I bought others. The reason for that, being it doesn't absorb flammables if spilled as easily as fabric, acids, bases etc. are slower to both burn through and to soak through to burn ME than a cotton labcoat would be.

Been contemplating doing what I like for leathers worn for comfort/looks with the scrappy old one (any rents in that old coat used in the lab, are at the back, which of course is unlikely to be facing something trying to cause mischief.) for leathers worn for pleasure, I like to line them with Pb dust shot in sealed plastic packets, covered by a liner
so as to provide as much extra weight as is practical and attach a few straps to go round the body for tight compression. Thought came to me the other night, why not line the scrappy old trench with lead sheet, fashioned into scale-mail not only for a more comfortable bit of clothing, but it would have the added benefit of being able to take some pretty severe punishment in case of an accident, that leather will slow, but if it were a standard cotton labcoat being worn, things like 98% H2SO4 would go straight through it, and burn the wearer. That leather trench, unmodified with compression and weighting has stood up to concentrated acid in time for it to be washed off (albeit near instantly) without causing any but minor damage. But something like sulfuric of that concentration for example, would eat through a cotton labcoat in no time flat, and soak in straight away whilst doing it, burning the wearer. Un-leaded leather coats (its a sensory thing, if anyone is wondering, auties usually like compression of the body, weighting the coat and adding leather belt-fashion bands for compression on a leather jacket several times too small, for me makes for a really quite comfy item of clothing.

But I just bet, especially if the lead were to be on the outside rather than in, that it would aid lab attire in surviving what would otherwise disintegrate the likes of cotton cloth.

Definitely more in favour of natural fibers rather than synthetics on the whole, silk aside due to the inherent cruelty involved in its manifacture, not that the likes of me could afford it, run the lab and eat, but I dislike intensely practices such as the throwing of live moth larvae into boiling H2O. As for wool..no. Just...no. The mere thought of the texture of the stuff makes my skin crawl, and I just cannot, and will not touch woolen anything. The one exception was a woolen fleece that had a fabric inner lining. That was tolerable, but it fell victim to an incident involving some manner or manners of alkyl and/or aryl R-SH, which after having to stay in the same clothing for about a week whilst the mercaptan compound(s?) worked their way out of my system (produed in-vivo as metabolite(s?) of something, not at all pleasant having odoriferous thiol derivatives in one's proximity, and when part of the total content is coming from INSIDE one, including nasal fluid, that is something most aversive, to say the very least)

So, All that clothing had to stay unchanged for the duration, and be bagged, taken to the middle of nowhere, and burnt, because there was no way in hell they could have been put into the outside household bin. The shoes and metal piercings were the only things worn which were able to be salvaged. Just think of what, for example, lower-weight alkyl mercaptans are like, then imagine producing it in your nose. For incidents which cause no physical harm to the subject experiencing them, unless Se or Te were to be involved in place of sulfur, things don't GET much more traumatic than producing them IN your nose

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"The range of plastic microfibres found ingested/internalised by organisms studied here included modified acrylic, polypropylene, viscose, polyester, and acrylic. Polypropylene has been found to adsorb PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), nonylphenol and DDE, an organochlorine pesticide7. Polyethylene, a type of polyolefin fibre whose chemical composition in part is the basis of some polyester fibres (e.g. polyethylene terephthalate), has been found to adsorb four times more PCBs than polypropylene44. Polypropylene has also been found to adsorb a range of metals in a marine environment; the concentrations of most of these metals did not saturate over a year period suggesting plastics in the oceans for long time periods accumulate greater concentrations of metals." Plastic microfibre ingestion by deep-sea organisms http://www.nature.com/articles/srep33997

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"The range of plastic microfibres found ingested/internalised by organisms studied here included modified acrylic, polypropylene, viscose, polyester, and acrylic. Polypropylene has been found to adsorb PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), nonylphenol and DDE, an organochlorine pesticide7. Polyethylene, a type of polyolefin fibre whose chemical composition in part is the basis of some polyester fibres (e.g. polyethylene terephthalate), has been found to adsorb four times more PCBs than polypropylene44. Polypropylene has also been found to adsorb a range of metals in a marine environment; the concentrations of most of these metals did not saturate over a year period suggesting plastics in the oceans for long time periods accumulate greater concentrations of metals." Plastic microfibre ingestion by deep-sea organisms http://www.nature.com/articles/srep33997

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Saw this on Reddit today. Some good footage. Plastic China (2017) - a sobering look at what actually happens after our recycled are collected. Our trashes are shipped to China and processed by workers (many of them elderly women and children) working in dangerous and toxic conditions 塑料王国媒体版 王久良 超清- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFdEXyXjBU [Edited on 8-1-2017 by Morgan]

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Quote: Originally posted by Sulaiman   I find that natural fibers 'breathe' allowing sweat to evaporate rather than run down my body. This depends mostly on how the fiber is woven and less on the choice of fiber. You never know what you'll learn from a relation with a costume maker