Textiles you hate.

[Moon bunny]

Cordings yellow ones by any chance? 🤔

Any color, especially black.

 

[wafter]

Corduroy.

Not keen on the aesthetic but at least it's honest!

Merino. Grotesquely over-priced, itches like hell, and quickly gets eaten by house moths. People drone on about its virtues almost as much as about Goretex.

Funny, I feel completely the opposite and love the Merino base layers I picked from the carcass of CRC - they feel great against the skin and when worn on their own do a great job of remaining smell-free


I generally dislike anything synthetic unless it's quality technical gear; really irritates me that most modern "wool" garments seem to be corrupted to some extent by placcy fibres

 

[Oldhippy]

Lycra, nylon.

 

[vickster]

Suede and any really soft suedy leather like nubuck...shudder!!

 

[Jody]

Does anything made of pure wool count?

Same here.

 

[lazybloke]

Doesn't matter what it's made of, wearing a tie is horrible; and makes the collar rub : gives me a sore neck.


Possibly my shirt collars are too tight; aka "fat neck".

 

[raleighnut]

Only if you wear it next to your skin, which I can't think how/why you would.🤔 🧐 And to me tweed smells of lanolin, if it's 100 percent tweed. On about it smelling of pee, it used to be dyed using animal and or human pee in the process. Wool is supposed to be self cleansing, so if you pee your pants while wearing it the natural anti bacterial qualities are supposed to neutralise the bacteria.

I had a tweed suit as a youth (about 12 so 50 years ago) the trousers itched like beggery (not sure what I was supposed to wear under them other than Y fronts ) and the jacket stank when it got wet, never been so glad to grow out of something.

 

[presta]

The only times that I have had X-rays/scans... have been for scary health reasons!

I was only about 5 when I started having regular x-rays, so I was a bit young to think like that.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm not sure I've ever had strong feelings about a textile, though I'm partial to watered silk and to a heavy velvet.

Oh, I've thought of one! Seersucker is unbelievably horrendous.

I saw this thread and my thoughts were pretty much exactly the same as yours.

How can I hate a textile? Can I think of one that I have any negative views on at all? Indeed can I think of a textile that I have any opinion on at all? I know, I had a maroon seersucker shirt when I was about 13 and hated it. I'll pick seersucker. I hate it!

Boo! Loathsome seersucker! (despite not having had any experience of it for about 50 years)

Maybe if you offered me some underpants made out of Cotton Duck I might have other views.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I had a tweed suit as a youth (about 12 so 50 years ago) the trousers itched like beggery (not sure what I was supposed to wear under them other than Y fronts ) and the jacket stank when it got wet, never been so glad to grow out of something.

I wore bri-nylon flared trousers while at secondary school in the 1970's. They were terrible for making my legs itch, plus they were full of static electricity, so not only did I itch all day, I also got electric shocks all day long!! After much suffering I decided to nick a pair of my mother's tights, after hearing they'd help with the itching. They did to an extent, but I think they made the static shocks even worse! One day while wearing my mother's tights under those horrible nylon flares, I was caught wearing them by some bullying pupils in the PE changing room. They made my life hell, mocking me at every opportunity! Even the PE teacher joined in the mocking, after he asked one of the bullies why they were hassling me. To make matters even worse, my mother also found out I'd been wearing her tights. She asked me if I was having perverted thoughts and if so she'd take me to see a doctor. I told her why I was wearing her tights, but although she said she understood and would buy me some cotton trousers to stop the itching and the static electricity shocks, I did think, and still thought many years later that she had me down as some sort of cross dresser!!

 

[raleighnut]

Never worn Nylon trews

 

[stephec]

I wore bri-nylon flared trousers while at secondary school in the 1970's. They were terrible for making my legs itch, plus they were full of static electricity, so not only did I itch all day, I also got electric shocks all day long!! After much suffering I decided to nick a pair of my mother's tights, after hearing they'd help with the itching. They did to an extent, but I think they made the static shocks even worse! One day while wearing my mother's tights under those horrible nylon flares, I was caught wearing them by some bullying pupils in the PE changing room. They made my life hell, mocking me at every opportunity! Even the PE teacher joined in the mocking, after he asked one of the bullies why they were hassling me. To make matters even worse, my mother also found out I'd been wearing her tights. She asked me if I was having perverted thoughts and if so she'd take me to see a doctor. I told her why I was wearing her tights, but although she said she understood and would buy me some cotton trousers to stop the itching and the static electricity shocks, I did think, and still thought many years later that she had me down as some sort of cross dresser!!

And there's me thinking that you were CC's ramrod straight style icon. 😂

 

[cyberknight]

blue workwear , as it means im going to work .

 

[Profpointy]

Shudder. I was given a pair of polyester shorts with an open rear fly for a CT colonography last August. Hardly haute couture.

When putting mine on, the nurse reminded me that the fly needed to be at the back! I had worked it out to be fair, but I can see how instinct would take over

Reason was mass screening as I am now official and old fart, rather than me having any problems thankfully

 

[T4tomo]

Tweed, stinks of pish and itches like a begger

maybe don't pish in it then?

re itching, decent quality tweed trousers etc should be lined.

maybe the advise should be dont buy cheap tweed and pish in it