2024-07-10 08:08:16
Summers are getting hotter, but polyester production seems to be in full swing. The Textile Exchange Organization has summarized how high the share of polyester in the world fiber production is – according to the latest results, it is 54 percent. More than half of all textile fibers are made of plastic, and all of this plastic has the potential to sweat. The world market for clothes does not seem to respond to the increased demands on clothes in times of climate change.
That has a small reason, which is disregarded by the world market standards and those who also value the body, are found linen. It is often said that the skin can breathe in linen – unlike a plastic shirt, under which heat accumulates.
There were few others until the 19th century
Those who wear linen, either have shirts for 1500 or 79 euros, so the supporters of this one percent. The share of flax, a fiber used for linen, is less than one percent of the world market in the same Textile Exchange study. In this respect, linen is gradually on the rise again in a long historical period.
Until the 19th century there was hardly anything else about the 20th century in the new, cotton processing machine has replaced linen. Then there is polyester. Linen is almost abandoned because it looks like linen, coarse and wrinkled.
For the same reasons, few are discovering this natural resource. Even new linen seems to be more sustainable than old polyester. Fashion has already responded, with many colors and prices. If you sort it in descending order, the first thing you notice is Loro Piana. Cashmere experts from Italy actually bought a linen company, Solbiati, with 150 years of business history going back to the time when linen was the first priority.
Brunello Cucinelli, also an Italian cashmere expert, also highly valued, now makes linen. It doesn’t seem too far from a dress to a linen shirt, see Brioni. In other financial areas will be Eton and Mr. P. – the house brand of online store Mr. Porter. Cos are also there, with shirts that are quickly bought online or in the areas of the pedestrians. May they also serve their purpose over many hot summers.
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