places that sell cute patterned fleeces like this … but made of cotton and not polyester
I find it to be criminal that Patagonia is charging me $135 to wear fucking polyester. I don’t care how cute their fleeces are. Cotton or wool please
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What's wrong with poly fleece for this application?
yeah you really would not want cotton for this
1) cotton fleece is generally awful. 2) wool fleece can't be dyed/printed like this.
3) In an outdoor scenario, wet cotton on something thats supposed to keep you warm is potentially dangerous
There's tons of these fleeces on the second hand market from loads of sellers/manufacturers if you don't want to buy new poly. Though good Patagonia ones are generally fairly pricey.
wool would weigh several times as much and cost even more
You should buy spibers $700 advanced labmade biomaterials Brewed Protein ™️north face Junya collab for something with the good fleece properties and not poly :thinkies:
Columbia make printed fleeces that can still be pretty cute and cost a lot less
If you want something vaguely similar then Story MFG polite pullovers are loosely based on Patagonia fleece pullovers and largely cotton.
But also about £3-500 new.
Loro Piana 'quiet outdoor' or nothing tbqh
The Brewed Protein fleece material is actually super cool from a tech perspective unfortunately they’ve only made one thing with it and it was ugly
Okay
I’ll get the polyester one
What about the health effects ?
what of microplastics?
having a poly fleece or not is gonna do nothing to affect your microplastic intake
if you eat food or drink liquids on this planet you will fill up on microplastics
hope this helps!
I try not to eat my fleece and I think that helps a lot
As for not adding more to our world, buy used and wash rarely
You should look up the thermal capabilities of materials.
The problem with fleece is when washing it, it'll release a lot of microplastics in the waste water. Water treatment plants aren't capable of filtering them so it ends up in the oceans.
I mean it's an issue with plastic garments in general