Tiny Fires
I definitely need a cotton nightshift.
Aviation peeps know that the fiber of one's clothing is important in a fire. If you wear meltable synthetics in a plane crash (or RV fire or car crash with fireballs), your clothes will melt into your skin, and it will really suck when the ER folks try to debrade the foreign material out of the surface layer of your body. If your clothes are cotton or wool, though, they'll burn on the outside of your body, but won't melt into your skin. Yay for no sucktastic removal later on.
In USA's culture, it's relatively easy for guy passers to get work-appropriate all-cotton clothes. SRSLY, for lady passers, though? Pain in the ass. Just shop for that shit. It's a pain in the ass six layers deep. I think I found a $20 100% cotton dress on the Amazons the other day, though, so I have my fingers crossed that I can buy one of those in every color. Even if the size I ordered doesn't fit, i'll get six of the size that will. That's as rare as... what... unicorn...eyelashes? Paging Hermionie to AP extension 4498.
I worry about that in Tiny. Everything I own is unwrinkleable polyester, the miracle fabric. I seriously need something that won't kill me in a fire.
I'll be sleepin' nakey until there's a cotton solution.
This entry was originally posted at http://piemancer.dreamwidth.org/890022.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
Aviation peeps know that the fiber of one's clothing is important in a fire. If you wear meltable synthetics in a plane crash (or RV fire or car crash with fireballs), your clothes will melt into your skin, and it will really suck when the ER folks try to debrade the foreign material out of the surface layer of your body. If your clothes are cotton or wool, though, they'll burn on the outside of your body, but won't melt into your skin. Yay for no sucktastic removal later on.
In USA's culture, it's relatively easy for guy passers to get work-appropriate all-cotton clothes. SRSLY, for lady passers, though? Pain in the ass. Just shop for that shit. It's a pain in the ass six layers deep. I think I found a $20 100% cotton dress on the Amazons the other day, though, so I have my fingers crossed that I can buy one of those in every color. Even if the size I ordered doesn't fit, i'll get six of the size that will. That's as rare as... what... unicorn...eyelashes? Paging Hermionie to AP extension 4498.
I worry about that in Tiny. Everything I own is unwrinkleable polyester, the miracle fabric. I seriously need something that won't kill me in a fire.
I'll be sleepin' nakey until there's a cotton solution.
This entry was originally posted at http://piemancer.dreamwidth.org/890022.html. Please comment there using OpenID.