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walburgablack replied to your post “walburgablack replied to your post “For a jeans-top cut-off skirt, I…”
linen saris sell for somewhere between thirty-eight and forty-six dollars depending on thread count, so, uh. I mean, they aren’t cheap, certainly. But I do see how that would be different in Troy. But ugh synthetic is so bad for a sari, though ofc a lot of what gets used for daily wear is synthetic.
A lot of clothing here is billed as “linen” but if you really look at it, it’s a cellulose fiber (plant-derived, but chemically processed) marketed under the name Tencel. Which is a rayon, technically, and while it’s not synthetic, it’s also not linen. The point of linen is that it’s made straight from plant fibers, and cellulose is made by chemically processing the plants into a kind of slurry and then forcing them through holes to extrude fibers. Which is fine, I’m not judging, it just means they’re not at all the same thing.
Fabric is sold as a finished good, at retail markup, as opposed to as a raw material. So you’ll pay more for the yardage to make a garment than you would if you just bought it ready-to-wear. Linen, actual linen, at its very cheapest (no choice of colors/patterns/weight) is around $8 per yard, and you need three yards to make a skirt. (A more typical price is $12-20/yd.)
Ugh I made the mistake of Googling linen saris and I think I have to go lie down. OMG those are so beautiful. Why did I look? I should not have looked.
Anyway I’m on an official hiatus from buying fabric until I go through stuff I have, and most of what I have is existing garments I need to cut up and reuse, so. I need to do that. *closes browser tabs*
As it happens, I just discovered an old skirt that I meant to cut up and make into something else, and it would be perfect as part of a jeans refashion– very similar to the aesthetic of the one my sister sent me as an example– so I’m going to deluxe it up by putting a lining underneath (it’s an old cotton gauze broomstick skirt, so it could be more substantial) but I’m not going to get any fancier than that. Except I think I’ll add a band of lace to cover the seam where it joins to the jeans, because I think that would look cute and I own the lace already. So. Progress, I guess. And I didn’t buy anything.
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walburgablack replied to your post “walburgablack replied to your post “For a jeans-top cut-off skirt, I…”
linen saris sell for somewhere between thirty-eight and forty-six dollars depending on thread count, so, uh. I mean, they aren’t cheap, certainly. But I do see how that would be different in Troy. But ugh synthetic is so bad for a sari, though ofc a lot of what gets used for daily wear is synthetic.
A lot of clothing here is billed as “linen” but if you really look at it, it’s a cellulose fiber (plant-derived, but chemically processed) marketed under the name Tencel. Which is a rayon, technically, and while it’s not synthetic, it’s also not linen. The point of linen is that it’s made straight from plant fibers, and cellulose is made by chemically processing the plants into a kind of slurry and then forcing them through holes to extrude fibers. Which is fine, I’m not judging, it just means they’re not at all the same thing.
Fabric is sold as a finished good, at retail markup, as opposed to as a raw material. So you’ll pay more for the yardage to make a garment than you would if you just bought it ready-to-wear. Linen, actual linen, at its very cheapest (no choice of colors/patterns/weight) is around $8 per yard, and you need three yards to make a skirt. (A more typical price is $12-20/yd.)
Ugh I made the mistake of Googling linen saris and I think I have to go lie down. OMG those are so beautiful. Why did I look? I should not have looked.
Anyway I’m on an official hiatus from buying fabric until I go through stuff I have, and most of what I have is existing garments I need to cut up and reuse, so. I need to do that. *closes browser tabs*
As it happens, I just discovered an old skirt that I meant to cut up and make into something else, and it would be perfect as part of a jeans refashion– very similar to the aesthetic of the one my sister sent me as an example– so I’m going to deluxe it up by putting a lining underneath (it’s an old cotton gauze broomstick skirt, so it could be more substantial) but I’m not going to get any fancier than that. Except I think I’ll add a band of lace to cover the seam where it joins to the jeans, because I think that would look cute and I own the lace already. So. Progress, I guess. And I didn’t buy anything.
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