Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When temperatures soar and humidity climbs, could your clothing be the deciding factor between comfort and misery? While sunscreen ...

There’s nothing worse than stepping outside on a hot day and immediately feeling like your clothes are turning into a portable oven. You're not alone if you’ve ever found yourself drenched in sweat ...

In some circles, to wear polyester is to invite unto oneself characteristics of that fabric–cheapness, lack of status, artificiality. And it follows that for people who wear only natural fabrics, a ...

It takes 200 years for polyester clothing to break down meaning that every piece of polyester clothing ever made still exists today. Even for the most conscious consumers, it can be a challenge to ...

BERLIN, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Adidas will launch new fabrics made from recycled polyester and marine plastic waste and expand the product lines that use them after the success of shoes made with the ...

When you dry yourself off after a swim, try to stay dry on a rainy day, or put on a T-shirt, you choose the best fabric for the job. Perhaps you need a fabric that is very absorbent. Maybe you want to ...

Designers have often appropriated drapery or upholstery fabrics and altered them to simulate other materials. They have infused them with resin and plastic to use as room-dividers, or to make ...

Everyone from Saint Laurent to Shein is using this synthetic. Why is polyester taking over and what does it say about us? “That’s too expensive for polyester!” A statement we’ve all likely heard, ...