Ecological fashion professional, trashion by Outi Pyy wants to make consumers sit up and take notice elastane disadvantages.
take a Peek blouse or farkkujesi material tag – contains fabric spandex?
Quite likely yes, at least if the garment is new production and low quality.
Spandex again is not a good thing, at least in the ecological fashion professional, trashion by Outi Pyy. Shaking blog post its a Request to appoint the fiber of the garment industry into cancer and compare it to the food industry sugar: it’s everywhere, it is difficult to avoid, it is addictive, unnecessary and it doesn’t make us good. Request according to the elastane disadvantages of not talking enough, even if the fiber is bad for fashion always clothing design to their recycling.
Spandex, which also Spandexin or, say, under the trade name Lycra is known, was developed in the 1960s in the united states rubber as a replacement. Flexible fiber made vessel – and sports clothes, more comfortable, and in addition, its production was cheaper. Flexibility also meant a smaller amount of materials, as well as the fact that the same size work more – i.e., to facilitate mass production.
in the 1990s spandex began to add also other everyday use of clothes, always jeans dresses and outerwear.
Request that this is precisely the problem. He argues in a convincing four point.
originally, socks, pants, underwear and sportswear developed for spandex is sneaking up also everyday use clothing.
1. Spandex shorten the garment’s life and complicate washing and clothing care
you’ve probably noticed how spandex jeans emerged quickly knee bags, and how to knitted blouses lose their shape easily?
for Example, sunlight, dirt and heat of the groped way spandex fiber, which is why clothes don’t last in use. Spandex not you should machine wash at over 40 degrees – lingerie except for – or using fabric softener, as the heat and the softener will ruin elastane flexibility, Hazel advises.
2. Spandex makes the garment fiber recycling almost impossible
spandex than with the clothes so meet quickly become obsolete, and that’s when the trouble really starts.
recently, there has been much talk about clothing fiber recycling, which allows old textiles can be manufactured of the new fabric. Unfortunately, spandex does, say, otherwise, cotton-based clothing re-exploitation impossible.
spandex containing clothing it is therefore unnecessary to take, say, a clothing store collection boxes, because they do not come with existing technology to change biomaterials.
– the Consumer has the duty to recycle to buy clothes correctly. Elastane on options are running low, and in practice clothes comes from the combustion of waste, Partridge said.
3. Spandex has received a clothing designer, you lose the ability to deal with the garment cut and shape
Spandex allows great mobility, which makes clothing the zoning of the former easier. The garment’s performance and adaptation to different body shapes need not elastane thanks to draw so much attention, so it’s no wonder that designers have taken the fiber of their own.
Hazel is not the only one who has woken up to the problem. A respected Dutch fashion critic Li Edelkoort has already expressed a few years ago, concern that the fashion students are no longer taught enough fabric, fibers and their behavior, when all the spandex-containing fabric. In vogue so we’re losing that skill, which allows the part to create clothes without spandex.
It is possible: flexibility and mobility can be brought to the garment including the fabric of the bond, neuloksilla and careful planning. Isn’t that what before was done.
4. Elastane is why you’ve lost your ability to assess the size and your own size
Many people love spandex just because it makes the clothes so nice. Request according to the spandex has distorted our perception as well as clothing sizes of the dimensions of our.
He advises to give preference to the clothes, which is suitably movement of looseness without spandex. In the dressing room should, for example, sit and bend over in order to see whether the clothes really the right size.
Spandex provides flexibility so fabrics like clothing sizing. Stock. WWD/REX
What to do in spandex clothes?
spandex is everywhere, so the living can get desperate. Pyy toppuutella, not spandex jeans may not be the full ecological disaster includes.
– As fiber can not be demonized entirely. Also the linkage and the fabric thickness is important. Although the jeans would be two percent spandex, but they have a good bond and the material is thick denim, they can last.
the Request according to the elastane use is necessary to limit underwear, socks and sports clothes, which material is intended.
If the spandex clothes, however acquired, he recommends to invest in thick materials manufactured clothing, which can be used for as long as possible.
Lifespan increases as well as clothing right the washing, i.e. lower temperature and without fabric softener, the washing time of the reduction. It manages, for example, by using undershirts.
When then spandex clothing is end used, use it at home, for example, rättinä or paper as a substitute – before disposing of its waste.
a lot of love in tight jeans is often the spandex adding comfort. Old vintage jeans are usually full of cotton. WAYNE TIPPETT/REX/ALL OVER PRESS
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the Thing is published for the first time in February 2018.
