#it's not 'tradwife propaganda' jfc

[isan0rt]

I have a strong suspicion that the poster that thinks wool is "objectively itchy" might be allergic to sheep's wool.

Wool is just hair. It's hair from a sheep, but it isn't chemically or structurally different from any other mammalian hair; it's composed of a shaft of protein with microscopic scales that open and close with weather conditions and moisture. Some sheep breeds have coarser hair than other sheep breeds; generally, sheep bred for meat have coarser, shorter-staple wool than sheep bred specifically for wool production. But unless you have an allergy, which are common! Wool is simply not universally itchy.

Idk exactly how to explain this but the softness of real wool and real linen is very different from the artificial softness of polyester “sherpa”, fuzzy faux-fur, spongey acrylic knits and people have gotten too used to the soft plastics and now associate wool with “itchy” and linen with rough and cotton with “too heavy” and then go and wear 100% polyester fleecy sweatshirts and say it’s so warm and cozy but actually they’re just staticky cooking in their sweat locked inside a plastic membrane and you are paying too much to be wearing filaments of petroleum products and the money isn’t going to the people sewing them either. I’m saying you all need to touch grass and the grass in this situation is good quality textiles made of natural fibres.