Originally Posted by
ianbrettcooper
...My point - I like all those natural fabrics and I think the quality ones are overrated. Okay, they're reasonably good insulators for their weight, but I hate them sooo much - cheap, sweaty plastic garbage!
... just don't see a 30 minute commute becoming that sort of thing, unless society really suffers a catastrophic breakdown.
Um, you get what you pay for. Not all synthetics are cheap, and the quality synthetics are not sweaty or "plastic" feeling, nor do they hold odors. As for a 30 minute commute not being a problem, it was on a commute of just that length that I got caught in the rain and got hypothermia. It doesn't take long.
Some of us just can't wear wool of any kind without scratching our skin off, so the synthetics have been a wonderful invention for us.