I’ll go first.
- I spend a lot of time in Asia. In recent years, as with other parts of the world. It’s getting hotter and humid. I visited an East Asian country recently and temperatures were about 50°C (122°F for the Americans) with the humidex. Culturally, it’s more conservative there and older people say women shouldn’t show cleavage, collar bones, wear spaghetti strap tops, etc. At this point, it’s so hot outside I will take the option of not getting heat stroke and risk offending some local. Something like a loose linen top might have worked as a compromise but I don’t own any.
- the quality of pieces have gone down. It’s insanely expensive just to get a classic cut blazer or a dress that isn’t boxy. I don’t recall it being this expensive 20 or 30 years ago to have some pieces that aren’t loose shapeless pieces of fabric.
Iy was Japan, wasn’t it?
When I went there it wasn’t insanely hot, but still pretty hot. I was wearing a dress with not too much cleavage and a large cardigan on top that came undone at the chest. A few old men stared and one even stopped to say something to me with a very weird tone while staring at my chest, but I couldn’t understand what he was saying.
I’m thinking he was berating me.
When I went there it wasn’t insanely hot, but still pretty hot. I was wearing a dress with not too much cleavage and a large cardigan on top that came undone at the chest. A few old men stared and one even stopped to say something to me with a very weird tone while staring at my chest, but I couldn’t understand what he was saying.
wow that’s really frustrating, i’m sorry that happened to you
Polyester. I feel gross even touching it. It doesn’t even have to be hot for it to smell like BO. But if you want inexpensive (especially plus sized) clothes, you’ll have a hard time finding anything else.
and unfortunately it’s the fabric for most of the readily available clothes now!
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a counter point to crop tops - i felt the same way before but once i started wearing high waisted bottoms, i found that it was difficult to tuck in shirts and it looked bulky
similar to you, i’m sick of seeing a nice tshirt or blouse or sweater and there’s a ton of cut outs? why are there cut outs?
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I know it’s just my taste and the fact that I went shopping today in a thrift store in a suburb of many older Christian women, but I got a little annoyed at just how many pilling knit shirts and synthetic sleeveless-blouse pieces I saw. Usually some floral pattern or solid saturated color. Why is it so difficult to find neutral colors and natural fibers? I like the linen things that are so much more common in Asia.
As an aside, those things (loose linen shirts like you said) are really good for hot humid times/places. Anecdotally I think cotton and woven materials in general are lighter, more breathable, and more water-permeable in general than synthetic and knit materials. I figure there’s a reason Korean fashion has so much light colors and woven fabric: it both protects you from the sun and allows cooling. Similarly, construction workers often wear long sleeves and long pants to protect from the sun because when you’re out there that long, the cooling benefit you get from direct contact with the air gets negated by the direct contact with the radiant (radiative?) energy of the sun.
I think natural fibers are a lost cause at this point. Maybe too expensive? seems everything is polyester now
