Originally Posted by
bbbean
Note that cotton technology has come light years in the past decade or so. "Charged Cotton" technology added stretch and wicking to cotton, and there is a new treatment called Clarus that promises to make cotton (and wool and silk) comparable to synthetic fabrics for stretch and wicking. Given that cotton is MUCH more environmentally safe than any petrotextile, we shouldn't write it off entirely.
BB
Cotton with synthetics in is MUCH more environmentally friendly than lycra?
I remain unconvinced. I mean, we're talking modern agriculture then shipping it to China where they make the modern cotton with synthetics in
then shipping it somewhere where labour is cheap for the actual tailoring bit then back to you.