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                                                      Plant and animal fibers are the building blocks of clothing. They’re what yarns are spun from, and subsequently what fabrics and ultimately clothes are made out of. With certain yarns, we get certain properties. Cotton and linen tend to be lightweight and breathable, merino wool is warm and insulating, and cashmere is soft and luxurious. But what about the other materials we see on our care tags, such as Egyptian cotton, Alpaca, and Tencel? Here we’ll review ten less popularly understood fibers and what they mean for clothes. Alpaca: Fiber from the alpaca, a small, domesticated llama native to...

                                                                                                                       Not to get all scientific or gross you out, but from time to time, I leave my epidermis exposed...and occasionally, I even wear clothes that have been treated with the same enzymes used to eliminate clumps of indigestible plant material - fibers, skins, and seed - when they are trapped in people's stomachs. Yup, that's how I roll and whether you know it or not, it's probably how you do too because clothes that are treated with enzyme washes include cellulase, the very same suite of enzymes that are used to clear masses in human stomachs. So, why...

  When most people think about polyester, they think of the 1970s and the 1980s – shiny, synthetic jackets stretched tight, tucked into stretchy, polyester bellbottoms in bright colors, or flashdance-esque polyester leggings and oversized, baggy polyester shirts. Luckily, over the past forty years polyester, like all fabrics, has improved, and now there’s key advantages to buying fabrics made from a synthetic fabric, or a combination of synthetics and natural fibers. Polyester fabrics – knitted from polyester yarns – can be natural or synthetic in origin. Invented in 1941 in England based on earlier research, early polyester was formed through...

     I once had a boss that I despised. The man was awful and that's not an opinion, it's a fact. Yet, when I had my one and only shot to make his life a little less pleasant, I didn't take it. It occurred one afternoon when a colleague made a mistake on materials that went out to a client. My boss uttered the following words, “I'm going to hunt that b****rd down” and immediately, I knew that I had my opportunity to strike. Bad language was perfectly acceptable in the workplace, but the “hunting down” part, if...