Do you avoid certain fabrics? Viscose?

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Do you avoid any fabrics entirety either because of how they wear or feel?

I have a couple of items that have bobbled really fast and realised both are viscose. Hate that bobbly look - so tatty.

I'm try to plan an Autumn / Winter wardrobe and listing stuff I want.

Just seen a jumper I was planning to get is 79% polyester and 20% viscose. It's £42 so hallway to a decent cashmere 😄 Avoid?

And why has it all when me 34 years to look at clothes labels properly?

I too read labels and won't buy unless natural fibres - it's quite helpful as it stops me spending so much money on clothes.......

The problem that Pepperberry must have is that they essentially create triple the number of sizes of other comparable brands. Because every size comes in different levels of curviness, their overheads for pattern design, cutting etc must be much higher, so in order to keep the product at a high street price point they must have to economise somewhere - hence the cheap fabrics.

I have several tops and dresses from Jaeger in a lovely heavy viscose jersey which wash and wear brilliantly, with zero bobbling.

I absolutely hate any polyester or acrylic in my clothes, it's shiny and cheap looking and the jumpers have that nails on a blackboard squeaky feeling when you rub them. I also hate being tricked into items I thought were all cotton - it's all fine until you wish them once or twice and then they look awful. It also infuriates me the prices charged for things made out of nasty polyester!

I am another always reading carefully for 100% cotton or other natural fibres. I adore wool, some knits with fine wool hang beautifully and are so soft.

Viscose I'm puzzled about - like some have said above, I've had awful bobbling and mishapen things, and other items it has been great and bounced back like new after each wash? I tend to avoid as I'm not sure what way it will go!

I avoid polyester, 100% acrylic knitwear, linen (it always ends up looking a mess), cupro (gives me the shivers) and dresses with a lining. I have a couple of 100% viscose blouses and they are ok but viscose mixed with elastane is a no-no (sweat city). Unfortunately a lot of things seem to be polyester these days, i too spend ages looking at labels.

I used to only pick natural fabrics. But I found more modern synthetic fabrics breathe and wick better. I no longer wear cotton bras as they feel damp if I sweat and my gym tops are polyester ( though I spray the underarms with Vanish before washing.). Hate silk, it creases and shows embarrassing sweat marks.
I like jeans with a bit of polyester and Lycra in them, they are stretchy, look less creased and don't wear through as quickly.
I don't own anything acrylic, as it goes baggy and static, jumpers are always wool, though I'm coveting some cashmere. No viscose or rayon either, though I have some Tencel jeans.
Bedding is always pure cotton and shirts always pure. cotton or cotton Lycra.

I don't think it's straightforward. Cheap cotton can be crap too whereas I have stuff from Me and Em in a heavy viscose jersey that's coming up to 6 years old and not a bobble in sight.
But my pet hate is a viscose / modal T shirt with a shedload of lycra 'for a better fit'. Not pretty.

A label is not enough to tell you how a fabric will perform. How is the fabric produced and where. I find a problem is more likely to be a company's use of a fabric they have not put through testing or a cheaply produced cloth. I have items from a number of time periods, produced with supposedly the same material and they do not perform in the same way. It is like saying one wool jumper is like another and they are clearly not. I have taken items back that have not performed adequately for the price, or patently failed (seams pulling on arms, where fabric frays etc.) and these were supposedly good brands and good materials.

I don't mind viscose at all, but would definitely think twice about polyester or acrylic - not least because of the electric shocks! However, if it's bobbling that annoys you, the worst offender I've found is cashmere

I avoid polyester and acrylic. Particularly knitwear with a high acrylic content and bedding with polyester.

Are tencel and lycocel types of viscose? I like those but I hate how badly they crease.

You're right, Sleep. I'm always amused that bobbling in cashmere is somehow acceptable!

Just googled tencel and lycocel are made from eucalyptus and viscose and rayon are bamboo.

Viscose seems to have replaced cotton jersey which was much nicer.