Fabrics for the summer months

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The hot months are approaching and you all must have started making the necessary changes to be fully prepared to feel comfortable in the hot and humid weather conditions. However, taking off every piece of an article from your body is not the only solution and neither the minimal of it is. You must give a reality check to the kind of fabrics you've been using ever since.


Are they even meant for wearing in summers or not? This is the first thing you need to keep a check on. This article comes to your rescue with the summer-friendly fabrics that will ease of your pain of going through the sweaty and uncomfortable feeling inside. This article talks about the various kinds of fabrics available in the market that can help you endure the summer months without facing much of a trouble.


• Cotton Cotton had to be the first fabric when spring or summer is the main focus. Some of the basic reasons why it is adopted for men's clothing areaffordability, easy availability and adaptability. It is a natural fabric easily grown in the different countries of the world. You might have a lot of clothing articles from the most basic men's underwear to your shirts that are made up of the super comfortable material.


Advantages: 1. Soft/lightweight: You might get confused between tiny clouds and cotton puffs when it's still growing. Eventually, it is furthermore treated to become balanced for any apparel style. Supima cotton, Combed cotton and others are a variety that can be easily found in different clothes. 2. Breathes exceptionally well: You must be aware of what this aspect is trying to state (only if you've tried the fabric on your body). This naturally obtained fiber breathes exceptionally well and does not trap moisture between the skin and the clothes.


Disadvantages: 1. Shrinks: The shirt that you wore the last year would possibly be smaller this year and that's the first downfall of the fabric. It shrinks and doesn't stop shrinking. 2. Wrinkles: Another con that people don't like about cotton is that it produces wrinkles and that too very fast. The moment you dress up and drive to work; by the time you reach the office, there'll be wrinkles on the shirt.


• Linen Linen is a natural fibre, made from the stalk of the flax plant. The fabric has been favoured because of the soft appeal, but is quite different from cotton in terms of touch and feel. However, both are the perfect fabrics for the hot months.


Advantages: 1. Breath-ability: If you look at the history of the fabric, you'd know that the fabric has been recorded first some 4000 years ago. You never know that it was available even before that time. With a lower thread count of about 85-160 which is way lesser than cotton; the chances of breathability increases with lower thread counts. You can even partially see through from the fabric (not practically see through, but just the bits). 2. Strong: Do not go by the looks and the translucency of the fabric. It is one of the strongest fabrics available in the men's fashion industry that goes a long way. There are men who sweat a lot and find their cotton shirts to fall apart after several washes; if you are someone who has experienced this, linen can be your new best friend for the summer months.


Disadvantages: 1. Wrinkles: Just like cotton, linen can be a pain when it comes to wrinkles. Spending the entire day with no creases at all, linen doesn't help you here. You just have to swap for something that doesn't look wrinkled, after all wrinkles are supposed to be underwear eyes and not on clothes.


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