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It's happened to me too on my armor leggings, where a non-zero number of people are like, "this part looks so washed out" when they receive the item. Ummm that part is lighter than the other parts because it's highlights mimicking light on metal, exactly the way it looks in the photos?
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I think the segmentation in their tails and limbs could be inspired by the anatomy of isopods, while the shields of the armored armadillo could have some sode (the Japanese armor shoulder protection) inspiration for sure.
You are SUCH A COOL MOM by the way!!
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For a horrible moment I thought this was an indictment of my beloved Michael Hobbes, PHEW
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American manufacturing will never be competitive on a global scale. We will never make a widget cheaper, and are decades behind making a widget better, than everyone else in the game. A 25% increase in cost will necessarily render some items unavailable or broadly inaccessible in this country.
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That’s definitely a huge misconception people have, that “made in the USA” is better quality than “made in China.” They make most consumer goods better than us at this point. More experience, newer machines, more advanced techniques — because they’ve been doing it for decades, and we haven’t.
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As someone in the garment industry, I am telling you right now there is no way manufacturing is coming back to the U.S. The machines are overseas, the talent is overseas — it would take hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild the infrastructure here, to say nothing of training a workforce.
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Just in case you're curious—since people (usually) couch the lance on their right, expect to catch your opponent's oncoming lance on your left. When you see these big asymmetrical pauldrons, you know that this is an armor intended for mounted combat. If hugely exaggerated, it's a tournament armor.
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I don't blame anyone — creators should be compensated for what is inarguably work. But we've built our habits on unsustainable systems (platforms supported wholly by ad revenue and data collection to be "free" to the consumer), and there is no ethical alternative that offers unbridled consumption.
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We have just created such an insatiable, unsustainable demand for entertainment that I can't see the creator economy surviving without social media. People aren't used to paying for it, and certainly can't afford to should each individual creator have their own price tag.
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It will probably be a while before we see these "next generation" recycled fibers widely used. It's a chicken and egg of > they're expensive, so brands won't use them > the only way to make them cheaper is for more brands to use them to create the efficiencies of scale.
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Mixed polyester/cotton blends used to be problematic because there was no method to separate the two fibers, so it couldn't be recycled. But there is a new process by which the polyester can be first melted and "strained" out, leaving the cotton behind, which can then be recycled as well. Exciting!
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Tencel lyocell is an example of a reconstituted cellulose process that is itself circular, and that doesn't use a toxic solution (unlike viscose rayon). The process of recycling polyester is simpler because you can basically heat it til it melts, and then reconstitute it into fiber again.
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In chemical recycling, the material is cooked / melted into a soup and then reconstituted. It sounds bad, but it does tend to result in higher quality fibers! The trick is using a chemical solution that a) isn't also terrible for the environment, b) can itself be reused.
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If you don't know how textile recycling works, basically there are two methods: mechanical recycling, and chemical recycling. In the first, everything is basically chopped up, which typically results in a poorer quality fiber. This stuff tends to just become insulation, etc.