Re: Do jerseys dry quicker?

"wafflycat" <waffles*AT*v21net*DOT*co*DOT*uk> wrote in message
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> "Chalo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>>>
>>> Modern fabrics wick better, smell less, dry quicker, and
>>> keep you warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
>>
>> Now I will take your word for all of these assertions save one. In my
>> experience, polyesters greatly exaggerate body odor, and tend maintain
>> some amount of smelliness even through washings. That's probably the
>> foremost reason I don't wear synthetics anymore.
>
> In that case, you aren't washing them properly. The rule in this house is
> wear once, wash immediately. 40 degrees C unless fabric guide says lower
> temperature, with a gentle non-biological detergent and the stuff behaves
> beautifully. Having just got back from France where the offspring cycled
> 500km in 2.5 days wearing cycling kit of said modern fabrics, there is no
> problem with long term odour at all. If he stank, I'd tell him!

While not commenting on the odour adhering qualities of synthetics, I had a
rude experience in a store once.

I was browsing through the shirts of a local sporting goods store. I pulled
out a standard name-brand polyester shirt to look at it and notice a smell.
Not a faint odour but a body odour reek that would knock over an elephant.

I figure either an employer surrepticoiusly borrowed it or a customer
returned it after wearing it without washing it.

That shirt stank!

Needless to say I passed on making a purchase.

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