What's the purpose of all these seams on my cargo pants? Which ones are functional and which ones are just there because REI feel the need to change things up every 6 months?
Pix pls.
Why does some terrycloth survive the dryer just fine, while other terrycloth gets snags and loose threads if I just look at it funny?
Not sure, but I like to keep the venerable traditions of my foremothers alive and reflexively blame synthetic fibers. Some terrycloth is 100% cotton, and some is a blend with synthetics or all synthetic. And it might make sense that synthetic is more likely to get snags and loose threads, because the attraction of synthetics in that application is a silkier feel, but if you make terrycloth silky, the loops are more likely to slide if snagged.
How come I can carry a smartphone in the pocket of my fishing shirts just fine, but the same smartphone in my bathrobe pocket makes the whole bathrobe slouch and migrate southwest?
I'm guessing your fishing shirts are weaves and your bathrobe is a knit. Knits stretch; it's what's they do.
What would happen if I put cargo pockets on jeans?
Jeans are made out of denim, which is typically very thick – thicker than the cotton twill in cargo pants. When you make the kinds of pockets of cargo pants, it involves folding over and sewing together many layers of fabric, which gets bulkier and harder to do the thicker the fabric is. This is, as a side note, what makes assembling jeans challenging, to start with.
Other than that, I don't know there's any further issues with it.
Anyways, the name for the technical domain all these questions fall under is "clothing construction".
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Date: 2021-12-25 09:09 am (UTC)Pix pls.
Why does some terrycloth survive the dryer just fine, while other terrycloth gets snags and loose threads if I just look at it funny?
Not sure, but I like to keep the venerable traditions of my foremothers alive and reflexively blame synthetic fibers. Some terrycloth is 100% cotton, and some is a blend with synthetics or all synthetic. And it might make sense that synthetic is more likely to get snags and loose threads, because the attraction of synthetics in that application is a silkier feel, but if you make terrycloth silky, the loops are more likely to slide if snagged.
How come I can carry a smartphone in the pocket of my fishing shirts just fine, but the same smartphone in my bathrobe pocket makes the whole bathrobe slouch and migrate southwest?
I'm guessing your fishing shirts are weaves and your bathrobe is a knit. Knits stretch; it's what's they do.
What would happen if I put cargo pockets on jeans?
Jeans are made out of denim, which is typically very thick – thicker than the cotton twill in cargo pants. When you make the kinds of pockets of cargo pants, it involves folding over and sewing together many layers of fabric, which gets bulkier and harder to do the thicker the fabric is. This is, as a side note, what makes assembling jeans challenging, to start with.
Other than that, I don't know there's any further issues with it.
Anyways, the name for the technical domain all these questions fall under is "clothing construction".