LFG Shirt - Why I am (unfortunately) Not Buying
I LOVE the new "LFG" shirt. I want one. But after I clicked "add to cart", I realized it's 100% cotton. That type of material shrinks, is rough, does not fit right, and is overall inferior to the tri-blend type of t-shirt that is popular these days. Mods, please take heed: Your consumers want the best possible product, and from this MGoConsumer, that is a tri-blend shirt. Please make it an option for all of your products to be purchased as a tri-blend type of shirt. Even if it means paying an extra $5.
I believe this is a huge reason why people on here hate Nike shirts. Because they're 100% cotton. They age like Mickey Rourke.
I've purchased this tri-blend type of shirt from your store before. It was the "The Worst State Ever" shirt, and I'm still wearing it proudly 5+ years later. Just my two cents...
As always, Go Blue!!
We have some t-shirt divas on this board.
Wtf does lfg mean in this case?
Cotton is way better for the environment than tri-blend plastics. Now go back to asking for the manager at Target and a buy a new shirt every few years.
You go back to saving the whales, hippie.
This comment is more self absorbed and nauseating than the OP
Actually, not true. Cotton is horrible for the environment. Studies have shown it is significantly worse than plastics. Ironically, organic cotton is much worse than non-organic.
https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/07/apparel-industrys-environmental-impact-6-graphics
While this shows that the one area where cotton is better is in per-unit greenhouse emissions, but because cotton doesn’t last as long, this is generally negated by how quickly cotton garments need replacement (when compared with plastic).
cotton takes about 1 to 5 months to biodegrade in a landfill. polyester and lycra take hundreds of years.
The studies I referenced take that into account, but thanks for pointing out the obvious.
oh, in the link you provided I did not see any reference to polyester and lycra taking hundreds of years to biodegrade, but I did see this:
While synthetic fibers like polyester have less impact on water and land than grown materials like cotton, they emit more greenhouse gasses per kilogram. A polyester shirt has more than double the carbon footprint of a cotton shirt (5.5 kg vs. 2.1 kg, or 12.1 pounds vs 4.6 pounds). Polyester production for textiles released about 706 billion kg (1.5 trillion pounds) of greenhouse gases in 2015, the equivalent of 185 coal-fired power plants' annual emissions.
In the off chance you still see this...
Yes, I referenced this in my initial post. If you adjust the greenhouse gas emissions by the durability of the material then cotton and plastic are similar from a greenhouse perspective, but cotton is still considerably worse in every other regard.
There are other studies that are easy to find on cotton vs. plastics and the time to decomposition. Recently, there have been many studies looking at reusable cotton (canvas) bags vs. plastic bags (grocery shopping) and the finding has been that you'd need to reuse the cotton bags over 7000 times to offset the disadvantages of the cotton (over 20,000 times if the cotton is organic). That's the equivalent of a weekly shopping trip over the course of... 140 years (or 400 years if organic). The one thing these studies don't take into account is the impact of all the plastic that ends up in the ocean (versus landfill, which they do take into account). But if we could keep plastics out of the ocean then it's a much better option than cotton from an environmental perspective.
That's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him.
I too have invested substantial amounts in triblend stocks. Cotton is the old man’s game.
Triblend? Made from the wool of Tribbles?
If only Harry Mudd had known those little furballs could be so useful, he could have found a new market for them!
I like that cotton monoblend, personally.
I like cotton. After a few washes, cotton gets nice and soft.
And I think Nike is more dry-fit. I think Colosseum uses more cotton than Nike.
Cotton is awesome, full stop. The OP is insane.
I buy cotton shirts one size bigger to allow it to shrink to fit. Or, the mgowife uses them for painting shirts if they shrink too much
Problem solved!
Dude. It’s just a fucking tee shirt. Relax.
First world problems are a bitch.
White people problems.
Seriously! We don't want this to turn into a deadly shooting like we have seen over Air Jordans. I am sure we can settle this over a glass of Countrytime lemonade and some Peppridge Farm cookies.
Or, if things escalate and that Carly Simon type of 'Anticipation; ensues, try:
Kahlua and Tomato Juice (shaken, not stirred).....
Ah yes white people the only race that it’s socially acceptable to make fun of due to skin color.
Yeah we really have it rough.
Ah yes, because no white people have ever grown up underprivileged.
Cool statement not sure what at all it has in refuting mine
Wypypo
Wow just wow.
I just figured you had already found a group.
... and these pretzels are making me thirsty!
This post - why I (fortunately) don’t care.
LFG - Let’s Fucking Gripe
Ten years younger but count me in with the cotton. I coach for our youth baseball league and a few years ago they switched over to dry-weave for the coach shirts. I keep my old cotton ones and wear them all the time The new ones sit in my drawer, all bunched up and stuff because they are impossible to fold—it’s like holding an eel.
Cant believe we are having a thread in this topic-and I’m contributing to it! OT season indeed.
This is most definitely the worst thread.The material is horrible and just doesn’t fit the blog. Let’s zip this up.
Full zip, half zip, or quarter zip?
On the half shell?
100% cotton is soft and natural. Breathes extremely well. Does not stink except when you do.
Wash it and it becomes softer.
And that's the huge downside to a lot of newer synthetic shirts. They stink shortly after touching any sweat at all. I like them, but only if they are treated with Microban or something similar.
Sorry,
LFG?
WTFDTM?...(delayed edit for those suffering from Acronym Fatigue (AF) like me...What The F Does That Mean)
LFG? Loving Feels Great? Lose Fat Gradually? Lost Forgotten Graveyards? Let Felicia Go? Leaping Female Gorillas? Lemon Flavored Granola? Loose Flatulence Generator? Lumberjacks For Growth? Leopards Flying Ground? Liberian Freighter Group? Let’s Find Grandpa? Lice Fireflies Gnats? Low Flying Groundhogs? Lithuanian Free Gynecologists? Luscious Freaking Gravy? Ludwig F. Grthwodzylcker?
Acronyms. SMH.
Last Functioning Grenade
Least Friendly Giant
Cotton is the fabric of our lives.
Plus 1 for Aaron Neville reference
Why couldn't Mr. Bunny get Mrs. Bunny pregnant?..........
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..because he had cotton balls. .
Now try inserting "tri-blend" into that joke. Not real funny is it?
Why couldn’t LGB Bunny get Mrs Bunny pregnant? Triblend balls. You are right, not as funny. Or is it?