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[annielaurie]

I like the fabric rayon, it is soft and feels like silk, not nylon or polyester.

Rayon is great for daytime clothes like dresses, blouses and tops, and also nightgowns made of rayon don't wrinkle much when sleeping in them.

Just mist the garment lightly with a water squeeze bottle (the kind you would use for misting plants or even your hair) and then hang on a wooden or plastic clothes hanger, and whatever wrinkles there are will smooth out on their own in half an hour or so.

Of course you can iron rayon too, set to warm only.

[mellie]

And I iron hankies because they look 'used' if you don't.

I used to iron tea towels, and underwear, (when I first moved out of home) for a good few years, but I got over that pretty quickly once the second baby came along.

I iron table cloths, and all other garments, including singlets. Not Socks. Lol

This said, I don't use hankies myself, I keep a small packet of tissues in my handbag.

My stepfather uses hankies, and they are always ironed.

My mum still irons tea towels and jammies, ...I still Iron jammies too, cringe...

Why? Because summer or winter, they look bloody awful if you don't, and I wont wear nylon/polyester blend crap to bed and cotton always crinkles so needs ironing.



Most clothes need ironing, or at least a quick pressing.

Not for sleeping, least not in summer, and whilst rayon is manufactured from naturally occurring polymers, it is neither a truly synthetic fiber nor a natural fibre.

It's a bearable in-between, but has a tendency to lose its body (stiffness) over a time and therefore you have to add sizing back to it.

It's more breathable than other synthetic, or semi-synthetic fibres, but It is actually cellulose, and doesn't stand the test of time, there are better synthetics that do withstand the test of time, which are comfort comparable with rayon, only more affordable.

[mellie]

Cotton classic and elegant breathable nighties are making a come-back, cotton can be sexy, though feminine,elegant and comfortable.

[mellie]

And another...




They have changed much since nanna wore hers to bed.

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[annielaurie]

That's all true about rayon, Mellie. I love the stuff, and almost everything I wear is made of rayon now, except my skinny jeans - which are really stretch leggings dyed to dark blue denim color and detailed to look like jeans.

Rayon can also be machine washed in cold water, and tumble dried on gentle cycle, and removed from dryer right away and hung up, so no wrinkles. I love it!

[mellie]

That's all true about rayon, Mellie. I love the stuff, and almost everything I wear is made of rayon now, except my skinny jeans - which are really stretch leggings dyed to dark blue denim color and detailed to look like jeans.

Rayon can also be machine washed in cold water, and tumble dried on gentle cycle, and removed from dryer right away and hung up, so no wrinkles. I love it!

The above pics are cotton, not Rayon... though for bigger people, sometimes a stretchy synthetic fibre works best, if they spray their entire body and their genitalia with deodorant before they go to bed on a 40 degree night.

Cant beat the real thing, and best of all, cotton nighties are back in vogue, sexy, comfortable and quite affordable compared to silk.

Ideally in a Australia, we should wear natural fibres to bed, even if we may only posses a few nighties in our wardrobe.



I'd rather have 3 natural fibre night dresses, than 24 cheap uncomfortable pieces of crap.

[annielaurie]

Yes, those pictures are cotton nighties, very pretty ..

[mellie]

It's a fine line between nighties being Sexy-pretty -vrs- mean and slutty I have found, a good way of making this distinction is asking yourself if the house caught on fire, and you had to stand out in the street for several hours , would you want your neighbours to see you wearing something an erotic poll-dancer might? Or worse, catch on fire and spend the next 12 months having skin grafts because of that 'chic' little number you bought on sale melted then became part of your skin.

Have you ever been to a burns unit?

The more serious injuries arise from synthetic fibres adhering to the skin, they melt then harden onto the skin like super glue.

Try chiselling that off just to get to then treat the wound...half the time, they wouldn't have needed skin grafts, had they been wearing a natural fibre night dress.

Plastics (plastic surgeons) hate them, so do nurses who work in burn units, and for a very good reason.

The majority of damage is none by debriding the wound of melted plastic, not from the actual burns themselves.



We want our nighties to be 'hot' but not burns unit kinda hot, and especially when it comes to children, they should always wear cotton or natural fibres wherever possible.

Not synthetic fibres with a fire/heat retardant.




Another cotton nightie...



And...





Of course China would like nothing more than for us to continue buying their sweaty smelly synthetic imported crap, this opposed to supporting our local cotton farmers and manufacturing industry.


Besides, cotton nighties are what more woman should be.....feminine,natural and real.


Night

[Super Nova]

Wow.#

Who needs porn when you have underwear models.

[mantra]

You make me laugh sometimes Mel with your desciptions. Some members should really make an effort to read your posts and they might cheer up a bit.

I tend to agree cotton is best for most clothing if you can get what you want in it.