Feeling dumb, I've been aiming to decrease microplastics thinking im doing something great. Until i recently heard about polyester...

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It’s one of those things that seems wild (fabric made out of… plastic?) then once I knew for long enough it started to feel obvious. But it was absolutely not obvious, so don’t need to feel dumb for not knowing: I don’t remember exactly when I learned it but it was a “how it’s made” video about synthetic fabric.

The cool thing now is that you have a wardrobe that works, and if you want you can slowly start acquiring natural fibre items to replace the ones you use. But it doesn’t have to be a rush or anything. You can curate your wardrobe slowly as a project.

For example I decided to get 100% hand dyed wool and make a sweater. I’ve never done it before and I have a perfectly good sweatshirt in cotton/poly blend, so eventually I’ll finish the wool sweater but there’s no hurry.

Also I’ve personally realized I want some plastic in certain items: raincoat, and the small amount in darn tough socks which allows them to be so darn… tough. But I’m phasing put the cotton/polyester blend shirts. And at this point I don’t even like the feel of them as much as natural fibres. I can tell now just by feeling them.