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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 4/22/2025 in #topic-of-the-day
Fabric Weight - Topic of the day 4/22/25
Weight can do so much to enhance structure when tailoring is not an option (or, I suppose, in the case of fisherman’s pants, when it depends on how you fold up and tie the waist). Billowy fabrics can work extremely well in hot —even humid— weather while retaining only a whisper of stiffness or “weight” I guess from the length of the cotton fibers.
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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 4/22/2025 in #topic-of-the-day
Fabric Weight - Topic of the day 4/22/25
For so many fabrics, it’s about the intersection of traditional fabric and garment type.
Give me a super heavy old cotton hoodie over the modern lightweight fleece lined ones any day. But my favorite pajama pants? Flannel worn to the point of being paper thin. You can feel the fabric losing integrity at the same time as the fibers are getting continuously softer, and the fabric itself simply remembers your body.
Denim is the one that I can’t go traditional on though— I need elasticity in the waist for comfort and that little bit of elastane thins out the fabric but makes it adjust to your body that much faster. Plus, I worry less about wrecking cheap jeans by tossing in the wash.
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